ASUS Eeee PC 1000HD Win7 Install

[Char Jackson]

Yes it does - although not the highest level of Admin privileges
nevertheless the first User account created is indeed an Admin - so if
the User only creates one User account then it's an Admin!

I'm under the impression that the user accounts with admin privileges
don't run with admin privileges by default. That's where UAC comes in.

The built-in Administrator account is disabled by default.

Exactly, so none that I know of.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:07:07 -0800, Gene E. Bloch

It's known as the Sanity Claws.

LOL.

You made it worthwhile being the straightman...

Ken, thanks too. I don't remember that line from the movie. Amazing
what you can forget in a half century

 

[Stefan Patric]

In news:[email protected], Stefan Patric wrote:

Actually rootkits are a newcomer in the Windows world, but have been
common for *nix for two decades now. And it is easy to infect a *nix
machine regardless of what level the *nix user is using. As many *nix
buffer overflows vulnerabilities for example grants the malware full
root access anyway. So what level a *nix user only has access to is
really pretty meaningless to *nix malware anyway.

Wasn't that vulnerability addressed some time ago? I remember reading
something about it. Lots of hoopla. I still scan for them regularly.
No OS is truly 100% secure.

Stef

 

[Allen Drake]

So you never introduce files from a third-party source, so you don't
need any AV protection that needs to be updated?

Why would I need to on my systems that are dedicated to their task? I
write the CAD application that gets introduced to the hardware. I
process the videos and the photos on those systems that I produce by
myself. I have no use for the Internet or downloads unless I am
upgrading software for their sites which is rare, maybe once a year.

 

[Allen Drake]

How are you interacting with Usenet? Clearly something is connected
to the Internet.

Yes, I am using a system dedicated to connectivity and communication
on Usenet and Internet where I shop and interact with others. My
other systems are shut down now and do not even connect via Home
Networking. No need. My netbook is used primarily as a GPS and mobile
entertainment center. I am always aware of what I do with each system
at all times. I am the only user. No swapping application or media of
any kind. I have a PC at work that is networked with the engineering
department that never updates for the same reasons. To much trouble
and time spent and cost involved. There is one IT guy that never has
to deal with any of that either otherwise he would be spending time
debugging WU garbage.

 

[Stefan Patric]

There must be vast numbers according to the posts on Microsoft Answers
which contain the phrase "I am the Only user and Administrator...." ans
when I have suggested that there is no need to run as an Administrator
on a daily basis in Windows 7 they just poo-poo it.....the problem being
I think is that it was highly inconvenient to run as a Standard User in
XP (can't remember what the situation was in W2K) and they just transfer
that mindset to Windows 7....

It's not only users that carry over their bad habits to a new OS. It's
the app programmers, too. As an experiment, I created a Limited, that
is, non-Admin privileged, user on one of my XP systems just to see how
well it worked. To make a long story short, there were problems. The
main one being it seems that many apps "assume" that the user running it
has Admin privileges, and don't work 100% correctly otherwise. Really
stupid. And a security risk, too.

Stef

 

[Allen Drake]

I said "machines totally isolated from the internet" - but how do you
update your AV, assuming that you introduce files to these machines from
outside sources? Many viruses are transmitted through removable media...

Who needs to update AV? If I am not exposed to malware or infections
do I really need AV? Does your video game have AV? AV SW is only for a
system that has a risk. A computer virus can't happen if there is no
connectivity.

 

[Allen Drake]

In

Oh I would stay away from torrents. The vast majority of them are known
for piracy and malware infections.

Windows 2000 SP3? You mean Windows 2000 SP4 which is needed to work
being installed from an USB device? If so, I believe Microsoft still has
it. And there is an unofficial SP5 floating around that includes SP4 and
all of the other updates that aren't in SP4.

What Windows 2000 you start with doesn't matter. As you can slipstream
SP4 to it anyway and create a new Windows 2000 disc with SP4 applied
that works just fine.

I'm still trying to decide what way to go. Leave in with XP, go with
W2K or Linux.

 

[ray]

In news:[email protected], ray typed:

Well if you call such things as OpenOffice, Thunderbird, and Firefox as
high quality, I suppose. But those are the last applications I would
use. And GUI drivers are generally featureless. Like if I want to use a
larger desktop than 800x480 of this screen, it can't be done through the
GUI. Instead I have to use terminal to make that happen. Touchpad
drivers don't have all of the features of say of Synaptics Windows
drivers do. Etc.


I can claim the same of Windows 7 too. But I run Windows 7 on my fastest
machines. Now try to run Linux or Windows 7 on a much slower machine and
they both fall apart. And I have played WMA audio files (I have GBs
worth) under Linux on these EeePC machines and the audio is always
choppy. And youtube videos have low frame rates, etc. Yet all of this
clears up under Windows 2000/XP on these same machines.

I see you've completely missed the point. The point is not whether MS or
OpenOffice or Linux is the answer for everyone in the world. Obviously
none of them are. It is a question of adequacy. Just because OO and Linux
are fine for someone else does not mean it's just what you need - and the
same thing is true of MS.

If you look back, you'll see that the OP was asking about win7 on an ASUS
eeepc. You may also find that Ken Blake admits that win7 on a netbook is
not very fast (to say the least). I have both win7 and Debian Linux on an
Acer netbook - win7 does not run - it crawls. But the Linux install is
very usable. You may also be interested to know that in putting Debian on
my wife's eeepc - it was absolutely no problem - on the 4gb SSD - in fact
there was about 1.5gb left - and it runs with all the software she needs.
The win7 install on my Acer took up over 14gb!!

As I say, the whole question boils down to suitability and useability -
and the only real way to know whether something will work for you IS TO
TRY IT - particularly when it's free.

 

[mechanic]

I mean besides the part that some updates can screw up a perfectly
stable Windows system.

Can't be 'stable' if it's buggy. That's what the updates put right.

 

[mechanic]

Eeeuser forums? Have you been there lately? They haven't been up
since it seems like a year now.

Once they had changed forum software it was up again for a while but
now there seem to be other problems and it's down again.

 

[mechanic]

So Asus knew from the start that EeePC users would be interested
in running XP on them.

Of course, but the 701 was never designed to take XP, as you said it
was impossible to update the OS.

 

[Ken Blake]

LOL.

You made it worthwhile being the straightman...

Ken, thanks too. I don't remember that line from the movie. Amazing
what you can forget in a half century

I'm a Marx Brothers fan, and I've seen "Night at the Opera" about half
a dozen times, most recently about a year ago. That line (and the
scene the line ends) is one of my favorites, so I remember it well.

 

[John Williamson]

Of course, but the 701 was never designed to take XP, as you said it
was impossible to update the OS.

XP will run (It's more like stroll,really) on the 4Gig 701, and it can
be kept up to date using Windows Update. The secret is to use a third
party tool to remove the backup files that Windows updates leaves on
your C: drive after each update, and remove a couple of other folders
that Windows generates during installation, and doesn't remove
afterwards. It is also necessary to upgrade the RAM to 1 or 2 Gig, which
lets you disable the swap file.

You also need to use an SD card to store all files that are not part of
Windows, for instance, on mine, the 32Gig SD card held the Program Files
and My Documents folders, as well as all the temp files.

 

[Gordon]

Like if I want to use a larger desktop than 800x480 of this screen, it can't be done through the
GUI. Instead I have to use terminal to make that happen.

Well you must be using a VERY OLD version of whatever distro you have
used. Ubuntu works perfectly well here on 1280 x 800 and I can set that
through the GUI....

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Can't be 'stable' if it's buggy. That's what the updates put right.

Although I disagree with BillW50's approach to system security, I have
to say that a system can have bugs (as in security vulnerabilities) yet
still be stable (as in reliable and not prone to lockups crashes or
other misbehavior). It is only when the vulnerability is exploited
that it becomes a problem - and even then, may not affect system
stability.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.

 

[mechanic]

It is only when the vulnerability is exploited that it becomes a
problem - and even then, may not affect system stability.

Most people would call a problem system unstable.

 

[mechanic]

Although I disagree with BillW50's approach to system security,

aka "clueless".

 

[Ken Blake]

Although I disagree with BillW50's approach to system security, I have
to say that a system can have bugs (as in security vulnerabilities) yet
still be stable (as in reliable and not prone to lockups crashes or
other misbehavior).

I agree. "Stable" means it doesn't crash. Some bugs in Windows can
cause crashes, but most of them don't. Stability and bugginess are two
different things.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Most people would call a problem system unstable.

Then by definition, all systems are unstable since all programs more
complex than a "hello world" application have bugs of some kind.