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文章来源： 1. CHREEY中国区总代提供。 2. PLU论坛。 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 先说说键盘的工作原理：
目前我们大家使用的都是塑料薄膜式键盘。塑料薄膜式键盘内有四层，塑料薄膜一层有凸起的导电橡胶，当中一层为隔离层，上下两层有触点。通过按键使橡胶凸起按下，使其上下两层触点接触，输出编码。这种键盘无机械磨损，可靠性较高，在市场占相当大的比重。它最大的特点就是低价格，低噪音，低成本。 目前所有的机械键盘做使用的轴都是由德国的CHREEY公司所制造的，CHREEY公司根据其几十年的生产技术开发了数种轴来针对不用的用户，而目前能使用CHREEY轴来生产机械键盘的厂家也不多，主要就是台湾的笙春，主要OEM贴牌生产机械键盘，贴牌的品牌有大家所熟悉的STEEL 6G、JAZZYKIT及FILCO等品牌，而CHREEY自己的德国工厂和捷克工厂也生产自有品牌的CHREEY原生机械键盘。 CHERRY的品质极为苛刻，用料不计成本的代名词，顶级的键盘生厂厂商。它来自德国引以为豪的MX technology，锻造出的按键开关"cherry MX switch"广为键盘发烧友们所为之膜拜。Cherry英文翻译为“樱桃”。 在输入外设领域。它是全球数一数二的专业键盘制造厂商。全称Cherry GmbH。成立于1965年，一家德国公司。主要从事生产电脑周遍键盘以及Switch（轴）。专业度极强。 轴（SWITCH）：轴相当于机械键盘的灵魂，不同轴的采用所带来的效果也是不一样的，不同的需求可以选择相对应适合自己的轴。目前主要流行使用的有4种轴，即为黑、白、青、茶轴，每种轴都有自己的特点，根据结构和内部弹簧的弹性分出不同的手感，根据个人的喜好和手感总能找到最适合自己的机械键盘，而目前国内的机械键盘越来越得到专业游戏玩家所重视，今后的市场还会有越来越广泛的发展。 Keyclick（Cherry的春天___青轴）——春天万物萌发,青青的小草。青青的枝芽。开始不知不觉的跨进了人间。青轴的段落感给人一种突破险阻的感觉,清脆的声音给人象春天温暖一样的爽快舒畅。机械感最强的就属它了。犹如机械齿轮在转动，又如机械金属链在转动。用它打字。妙不可言也！一切春气盎然。压力克数较为适中。按键声音较大。单轴寿命是2000W次。 Linear Action（Cherry的夏天___黑轴）——夏天是激情的时候，黑轴的行云流水给人最急速的输入快感。在那片绿油油的田野上，开始我的旅程。敲击它时犹如重金属撞击的一刹那，急速，过瘾。又如蜻蜓点水,连绵不断。黑轴是大众轴，打字很适合，打游戏也很适合，日常操作也很适合。压力克数在四个轴中排老二。按键声音适中。按下去是不会有任何段落感的，就像平时按下圆珠笔头的感觉(黑轴不包括最后"嗒"一声的那一段，"嗒"的那一段，压力的高低变化就是段落感了)。黑轴的压力克数比较大，上手会有些费力，一开始有少许的不适应，没有段落感的按键会让你有一种行云流水的感觉。单轴寿命是5000W次。 Alternate Action or Ergonamic（Cherry的秋天___茶轴）——秋天，一个生命没落的开始，一个看似时光短暂的时节，茶轴的稀有，那种似有若无的段落感。经过了春夏的风风雨雨。要开始结果实了。暗黄色是秋天的颜色，也正是茶的颜色。一个收获的季节。对！茶轴是成功的。很多人憧憬他。敲击它的感觉如同，小范围内的急速轻金属碰撞。很神秘的那么一下。他结合了青轴和黑轴的特点，或者说优点，使得它有了结果，有了成功。或者看成，它是最没有特点的一种特殊轴。很多人喜欢这样的感觉。压力克数和青轴相当。按键声音适中。单轴寿命是2000W次。 SoftContact（Cherry的冬天___白轴）——冬天一到，瑞雪连天。雪。你踩在上面的感觉。那种陷入雪中的段落感。那种别的季节无法给你的感觉。白轴可以告诉你。很缠绵的那种感觉。很美！点击白轴的感觉很舒服。白轴的游戏性很好，但不适合打字。打字的话，想快都快不了。白轴是压力克数最大的轴。按键声音适中。单轴寿命是2000W次。
键帽技术介绍：Cherry的G80键盘系列的键帽分两种: 1、激光蚀刻 所谓激光蚀刻就是使用激光刻字技术在键帽上灼烧出黑色的凹槽而已。因为其刻下的痕迹是线性的，所以常见的激光蚀刻键盘上的箭头等都是空心的。 提醒：这里面所说的有点过时了，其实现在的激光印刷术已经可以刻非线性的字体了，而由于键盘PBT材料配料的革新，现在已经可以实现用激光印刷黑色键盘了。但还不能印出真正的白色字体，其刻出的字更接近于浅灰色。 2、二色成形 二色成型是利用模具将两种不同颜色的塑料结合在一起，利用两种塑料颜色的差异性來显示字体。
提醒：二色成型不能用PBT塑料，只能用ABS塑料，其耐磨性不如其它印刷方式。
具体型号介绍： G80-1800 G80-1863 G80-1950 G80-3000 G80-3484 G80-3700 G80-5000 G80-8200 G80-11800 G80-11900
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Cherry的机械键盘轴虽然已经存在了很久，但高质量伴随的高成本一直限制了它普及化的脚步，只是大多应用于一些专业领域。近些年随着游戏玩家对键盘手感和品质越来越严格的要求，Cherry凭借超长的使用寿命和出类拔萃的手感博得了玩家的喜爱，慢慢走入平常玩家的视野。MX Switch是Cherry机械键盘G80系列的核心技术。由于Cherry各种MX Switch内部构造的不同，使Switch本身手感完全不同。键盘安装不同的Switch决定了键盘的不同手感，这也是大多数第一次准备购买Cherry键盘的朋友最大的困惑及最犹豫的地方。 黑轴： 青轴： 白轴：
轴背面：
二、 MX Switch的组成
2、开关帽：键盘是否有“Click”声、是否有段落感，均取决于开关帽的具体构造。几乎所有颜色的开关帽结构和细节均有差别。 3、开关帽固定卡：所有类型Switch的开关帽固定卡均一样。 4、金属支撑脚：所有类型Switch的金属支撑脚均一样。 5、弹簧：键盘的键帽压力克数取决于不同弹簧的使用。即使同样颜色的Switch，如同为黑轴，也可根据弹簧的张力不同而有“轻黑轴、重黑轴”之分。 触点金属片在底座中的位置。 触点打开： 触点闭合：
三、MX Switch间的区别
主要分类的标准并不以Switch的颜色区分，而是以内部结构来区分。并不告诉你“茶轴到底是什么感觉”，而是告诉你“为什么茶轴会是这种手感”，并希望看完这部分以后能够推断：如果我现在用的事黑轴，那么茶轴大概应该是什么触感。 2、 段落感的强弱：主要取决于开关帽凸起部分使触点金属片的形变幅度，也就是开关帽凸起部分凹凸越明显，段落感越强。 由图片可以看出，段落感由左到右越来越小。黑轴就是直上直下的触感了。也正是因为黑轴开关帽凹凸部分幅度最小，使触点金属片的形变幅度最小，所以黑轴的使用寿命远远超过了其他各类键盘Switch，达到了5000万次，而其他的寿命官方标注是2000万次。个人觉得不同类型寿命应该也不同，比如茶轴应该就比灰轴寿命长，因为茶轴的凹凸部分幅度比灰轴小。 茶轴和青轴使用同一种弹簧，所谓的轻黑轴也就是把茶轴的弹簧换到黑轴里面去。最右边灰色的轴弹簧压力最大，多被用在空格、回车之类的地方，但并不常见。
对机械键盘理解的一些误区
误区一：机械键盘防水性能很差。
误区二：只有低价键盘键帽会打油
误区三：高价机械键盘和低价机械键盘的价格差主要反映在做工差距上。
机械键盘的养护
关于机械键盘寿命的数据分析
从上图中我们可以看到,天王的APM达到了350左右,而热键操作数(1,2,3等等数字编队)达到了其62.8%,也就是219.8.
从这些图上我们可以很明显的看出1这个键出现的次数是非常多的,保守估计能达到25%-30左右(一个一个数就直接GG了).219.8*25%=54.95. CrystaliDiskInfo 2.0.1 磁碟监控工具（2008.11.23)
CrystaliDiskInnfor 2.0.1 是款很不错的硬盘监控工具，看看切图： 能够检测到，温度，转速，硬盘健康状况，包括报警什么的，电压等数值 图表记录下你的温度情况，而且保存为文件，供以后参考 左下角的监控，刷新时间可以自动调整。
这款工具总体来说很不错哦。试试看？ 乐辞，Media Player 11显示歌词不用怕。
其实Windows 上自带的播放器也挺不错的，很强大的管理媒体软件。不过在心理上觉得播放音质不咋的。比如说歌词同步以及播放界面让人视觉疲劳而已。 乐辞让MP的歌词同步发挥极限。乐辞也可以在Foobar,itune使用。看看1.41版本的更新信息： 效果图：
目前最新版本是1.41版本
VistaCodecs x64 Components 1.5.5 (2008.11.21)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented. It does not contain a media player. It does not associates filetypes. With this package installed you will be able to use any media player (limited only by the players capabilities) to play DVD's, movies and video clips of any format. Streaming video (real and quicktime) is supported in web browsers. Visit the homepage to get a 64bitAddon which enables xvid, divx and DVD playback in Vista's MediaCenter.
Do you want to watch your favorite video in MediaCenter? These components are tested on Vista Ultimate x64. This release is fully compatible with the 32bit codecs installed by the Vista Codec Package. t is fully uninstallable through the Windows interface. This release will not install on a x86 systems.
Latest Changes:
Windows Vista 32bit------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ windows Vista 64bit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 音乐软件
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--------------------------------------2008.11.20-------------- 进步中的foobar2000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 其实早就在用foobar2000了，不过之前觉得非常简陋，所以放弃，最近又跑去foobar2000论坛逛，发现现在的网友DIY能力太强，把foobar打造的无比完美，再次回到foobar2000，好处都不用说了，支持通常格式, 我最爱的格式还是APE（无损音频）. 来看看新的foobar完美界面吧。
超强吧，目前应该还是测试版本，不少兼容上的问题，我用的VISTA 64位，目前遇到一些播放问题。不过什么都在进步，再次感觉到PC的强大。这次更新，感觉很多IDEA来自APPLE，看来MAC真的要江郎才尽了。 -------------------------------------------------------2008.11.20------------------------------------------------------- Vista-磁盘整理工具双雄（2008.11.19）
来源于： ccBoy's (小气的神) BLOG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 之前写了个Vista下虚拟机软件三剑客
Diskeeper 2007
对了Diskeeper 2007也就是Diskeeper 11目前只针对Vista
这里有一个PerfectDisk 8和Diskeeper 10的功能对照，你可以了解一些专利技术和他们的设计的处理水平
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Genius CP-SF600 scanner, mini size
goodbye my friends.......
RM99 Mouse!!! - Razer Krait Mouse..........
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--------------------------------------------- -------------------------2008.Dec.05--- ------------------------2008.11.19--- EEEPC 文章集收集关于EEEPC文章 ---------------------------------------------- Installation of Windows XP on an ASUS Eee PC --------------------------------2008.11.19-- Installation of Windows XP on an ASUS Eee PC- source from i64x.com The Asus Eee PC (in the US anyway) comes with a very simplified Xandora Linux interface that provides some very basic functionality, like web browsing, email, messaging, and word processing. For some people that's all the Eee PC will ever need to do, but for others, a full blown install of a "heavier" OS will be required (or maybe just wanted). Because of the Eee's limited hardware specs, Windows XP comes to mind, but even a default install of Windows XP with all of the patches can be 2GB or above. On some Eee PC's (the 2GB models) this isn't an option, and even on the 4GB models, said XP install would require more than 50% of the available space (3.8GB formatted). So what is a person to do? This guide will show you how to rip the non-essentials out of the Windows XP installation CD, create a new CD with just the minimums, and allows for a fully patched Windows XP SP2 install with a final installation size of under 540MB - and that includes all ASUS drivers for the Eee. Following this entire guide may take a while, but if you follow every step, it will be worth it in the end. I own a 4G Asus Eee PC with 2GB of RAM. I have installed Windows XP Pro SP2 on my Eee, all the while documenting the entire process here for you as a "how to" guide. My final install comes in at only 537MB, and takes around 17 seconds to start up from power button press to desktop. If this sounds like something you'd want for your Eee PC, you're in luck. I'd like to thank Asus for making such a cool little ultraportable, and I'd like to thank you for reading through this article. It took me quite a long time to create, and I hope it helps a lot of people in their quest to run a stable, fast, and small XP install on the Eee PC.
What You'll NeedA Windows XP CD-ROM (Home, Pro, etc.), a Windows XP cd key, an external CD-ROM drive for installation on the Eee PC, a CD burner, a blank CD, a copy of nLite (free), an Eee PC, a couple hours.
Pre-Installation AdviceBefore you start, it's a good idea to go to Asus support site for the Eee and download all of the latest Windows drivers and and put them on a CD, USB flash drive, or SD card so you'll have them ready when your install finishes. After you follow my nLite instructions, almost all of XP's driver database will be gone (thus saving you tons of hard drive space), but you'll manually have to go in and install drivers for everything. Asus' US support site can be found here: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us You'll need to download the latest drivers for "Chipset," "Audio," "LAN," "VGA," "Wireless," and under the "Others" category, "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Driver." Extract all the ZIP files in to folders with names that make sense so they'll be easy to identify later.
Creating the nLite Windows Install CDRunning through nLite is pretty simple, but takes quite a bit of time. As a result, the instructions in this section will be pretty minimal... just pay attention to what I've done in nLite and clone all of my settings. If you see some items that I've removed that you are sure you want, like Bluetooth Support, feel free to uncheck those items. Beyond what you are 100% certain of, don't change anything. nLite allows you to easily break major features of Windows XP (like networking), so it's important that you not edit what you're not 100% sure of. Read the instructions carefully adn you should be fine. On an existing Windows XP machine, create a folder on the desktop called XP. Copy the entire contents of a Windows XP CD-ROM to that folder. Download and install nLite from http://www.nliteos.com/. Launch nLite. Click Next.
Click Browse and find the XP directory on your desktop, then click Next.
The list will be blank. Click Next.
Select "Hotfixes, Addons...", "Components", "Unattended", "Options," "Tweaks", "Boot ISO" and click Next.
We don't want to add anything to this. Click next.
Don't click any of the boxes, just click cancel.
On the components screen, expand applications and select the options that I have selected here.
Click on the box next to "Drivers" to select ALL of the drivers in the list.
Expand Hardware and select the options that I have selected here.
While you're at it, select Keyboards and Languages to check ALL of the items in both of those lists. Expand Multimedia and select the options I have selected.
Expand Network and select the options that I have selected here.
Expand Operating System Options and select the options that I have selected here.
Expand Services and select the options that I have selected here.
Also select the checkbox next to Directories in order to select all of the items under directories. Final will look like this:
Fill the general tab out like this (I blurred out my CD key - you'll want to enter your own):
Click the Users tab and fill out the information like this. You can substitute a name for the name you want, and specify a password for that user account.
Click the Owner and Network ID tab and fill out all of the information.
Click the Regional tab and fill out all of the correct information.
Click the Desktop themes tab and make it look like this:
Click the Automatic Updates tab and fill out the information like this:
Click the Display tab and add the custom resolution 800x480. Fill out the rest of the information as seen here:
Click Next. Fill out the information on the screen that comes after that to make it look like the following:
Click the Patches tab and make sure it look like this, then click Next:
The following screen is personal preference, but here are my settings:
Click Next It'll ask you if you want to start the process of building your nLite installation. Click Yes. The build process will take a while, depending on the speed of your PC. Once it's finished it'll tell you how big the new CD ISO is, and by how much it was reduced from the default install. In my instance, the new CD ISO is 152.67MB, and 429.05MB has been hacked from the full installation size. Good deal. Click next.
You can now create an ISO image of the install CD. You do have the option of burning your newly ripped nLite install right to a CD if you have a burner, but I recommend creating an ISO so you can back that up somewhere, and burn it with your CD burning app of choice. You can also add folders to the XP directory that you created on your desktop at this point in order to include those folders and files on the install CD. It'd be a good idea to include all of the latest drivers from Asus' site. Click the Make ISO button and browse to your desktop. Name the ISO file whatever you want and click Save. Your ISO creation will begin.
When the ISO creation is complete, click Next. You'll get a screen that says "Customization Finish!" Click "Finish" and nLite will close. You can now burn the ISO to a CD (unless you did already).
Setting up the Eee to Boot from CDYou're almost ready to boot your Eee PC with your nLited XP disc. Hit the power button on the Eee and immediately start hitting the F2 key to get in to the BIOS. Hit the right arrow key once to move over to the Advanced tab and then the down arrow key until you get down to "OS Installation." Hit the Enter key and change this to "Start" and press Enter again. Press the right arrow key until you're on the Exit tab, and then press Enter to save changes and exit, and Enter again to confirm. I'm not sure why ASUS has these BIOS modes to tell the Eee if you're installing an OS or not, but it's what they recommend so we're going to follow their procedure.
Booting from the nLite CDWhen the Eee restarts and the BIOS screen appears, immediately start hitting the Esc key. A menu will come up asking you to Please Select a Boot Device. We're going to choose the CD-ROM drive. This will be different depending on what the name of your external CD-ROM drive is, but it will be the only option that starts with "USB:" unless you have another USB device attached. Highlight it and press Enter. You might get a black screen with grey text that says "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM..." press the space bar a few times until it goes away. You should now be staring at the Windows Setup screen. If you're not, turn the Eee off and try going through the boot menu again. Make sure you select the external CD/DVD drive, and make sure you press a key when it asks you to press a key to boot from the CD drive.
Partitioning the DriveAfter loading drivers, the XP installation will come to the point where it asks you to set up your partitions. If your Eee has the stock Xandros Linux setup on it, there will be quite a few. Use the arrow keys to move up and down, the D key to select partitions, then Enter to delete, and finally the L key to confirm each deletion. You won't need any of the stock partitions, so delete all of them. When you're done the installer will show around 3.8GB of free space. Hit the C key to create a new partition, and the Enter key to accept the partition creation. You should now have a C partition that's 3804MB, and 8MB of "Unpartitioned Space" after the C partition. Highlight the C partition and hit Enter. Windows will ask you how you want to format the partition... choose the NTFS (quick format) option. Press Enter and the installer will resume.
Installing WindowsIf you've followed this guide to the T, that's pretty much it. The Windows install takes about 10 minutes on my Eee. Since we filled in everything in nLite, the install process should be fully automated, and before long you should be staring at a default installation of Windows XP. It won't be very pretty, since all of the drivers won't yet be installed, but it will be functional. Disable the Page FileRemember at the beginning of the install when we set the BIOS option for OS installation from Finished to Start on the Advanced tab in the BIOS? Go back in and set that to Finished. If you don't remember how, scroll back up and just follow the instructions. Don't forget to save changes when you exit. Your Eee PC should now boot up in to Windows VERY quickly. Your Windows install should be pretty small... Go in to My Computer, right click the C drive, and select Properties. As you can see, we're using up about 1.3GB of sapce on Drive C. This is pretty good, but isn't really as good as it could be.
On the desktop, right click on My Computer and go to Properties. Under the Advanced tab, in the Performance section, click the Settings button. In the Performance Options dialog that appears, select the Advanced tab, and under the Virtual Memory section, click the Change button.
By default, Windows likes to set up a page file that's USUALLY 1.5x the size of the amount of RAM you have - so for example if you have 512MB of RAM, you should have a 768MB page file. Sometimes this is different, but if you don't have a lot of RAM, it's usually 1.5X. If you have 1 or 2GB of RAM, I suggest you totally disable this page file. It'll save you a lot of space and for the light weight stuff the Eee is used for, it won't hinder performance at all. Click the radio button that says "No Paging File" and click the Set button. Click Ok to close that dialog. You'll get a notice that says that you have to restart for changes to take effect. Click Ok three times to get back to the desktop. You'll be asked to restart, click Yes. After your Eee restarts, if you disabled your page file, you should see a drastic increase in hard drive space. My install is currently using only 411MB.
Installing ASUS DriversRemember those drivers that we downloaded earlier? Now's the time where you'll need them. I'm SUPER anal about hard drive space on my default install, so I'll be doing this a bit differently than one COULD do it. Most of the Asus drivers come with installers. That's all well and good, but in addition to installing the drivers, they'll also install utilities, help files, etc. that we don't really need - so we're going to install the drivers for most things manually. Right click on My Computer and select Properties. On the Hardware tab, click the Device Manager button. You'll see that we've got several pieces of hardware with yellow !'s next to them.
I'll explain how to install a driver for one device - it's the same for pretty much every device, so just repeat the steps for the remaining devices. The first Ethernet Controller that it doesn't reocgnize is the []. Right click on it and choose "Update Driver." When asked if you want to connect to Windows Update, choose No and click Next. On the next dialog, choose the button that says "Install from a list or specific location (advanced)" and click Next. Uncheck the box that says "Search removable media" and click the box that says "Include this location in the search." Use the Browse button to browse to the device where you unzipped the ASUS drivers and inside the folder where you extracted the wireless drivers, choose the ndis5x folder and click Ok.
Click Next and the drivers will install. When it's done, click Finish. The second Ethernet Controller is the onboard wired Ethernet controller. Follow the steps above to get to the advanced driver install dialog. For this device, you'll want to browse to where you extracted the "LAN" drivers, expand the "Attansic" folder, click the "WinXP_32" folder, and then click Ok. The devices that show up as "PCI Device" and "Unknown device" will be installed later, so ignore them for now. The "Video Controller" and "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" devices can both be installed by following the steps above to get to the advanced driver install dialog, and then by navigating to where you extracted the VGA drivers from the Asus site. Click the "Graphics" folder inside that location, and the Ok button should be enabled. Doing this for one device will automatically install the other device. When asked to restart, choose No. After this you should be left with only two devices - "PCI Device" and "Unknown device." We'll take care of these by running two installers. Open My Computer and navigate to the directory where you extracted the Asus drivers. Go in to the folder where the ACPI drivers were extracted and run setup.exe. There are no options during this install, so just click Next and then Finish when it completes. Next you'll want to navigate to the directory where you extracted the Intel chipset drivers. Once there, go in to Chipset\Intel\Inf and run setup.exe. When the installer begins, keep pressing Next until it completes. Lastly, you'll have to install the audio driver from Asus. Inside the folder where you extracted the audio driver you'll find one setup file called AsusSetup.exe. Run that and the driver will install. When this installer is finished, you'll be asked to restart your Eee. Do so, and all drivers will now be installed and working fine. Here's a shot of the desktop at the correct resolution: Running Windows UpdateConnect to a network, be it wireless or wired, and use Internet Explorer to navigate to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Windows Update will tell you that it found some updates and give you the option of doing an Express install or a Custom install. Click the Custom button.
Windows will check for the latest updates, which could take a few minutes. When finished, it'll give a new page with a button that says "Download and Install Now." Click that button and a Windows Updater update will download and install. When asked to restart the PC, click "Restart Now." When Windows comes back up, Windows Update will begin downloading updates in the background. Let this process go until it's complete. Eventually you'll see a little yellow shield in the system tray that will let you know that udpates are being downloaded. This would be a good time to go and get a sandwich or something, as there are a lot of updates and downloading them all takes a while.
When all of the udpates have finished downloading, a yellow notification will appear above the shield icon in the system tray letting you know that updates are ready to be installed. Click this notification to bring up the Windows Updates dialog. Click the radio button next to "Custom Install (Advanced)" and click Next.
I'm going to be using Firefox on my Eee, but if you're using Internet Explorer you'll probably want to upgrade it to version 7. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of updates and uncheck "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification," and if you're not going to use IE7, uncheck "Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP" to save some space. Click Install.
You'll get a box that says "Updates that aren't selected won't be installed." Check the box that says "Don't notify me about these updates again." and click Ok. Click "I Accept" to accept the EULA and begin the update install. The updates will begin installing and Windows will tell you to restart when they're finished. Restart when asked to. Cleaning Up After Windows UpdateWindows Update keeps the installer programs for every single update that it downloads. It also keeps the files that were replaced during the update in case you ever want to uninstall an update. Since most of the updates that we just installed were security patches, we won't ever need to uninstall them, so we can safely get rid of the installation files and the files that Windows Upate has backed up and reclaim a LOT of precious disk space. First let's check out the damage that was done by Windows Update. Remember that my default Windows install was only 411MB.
Ouch. Over 700MB of space used up over the default install. We need to reclaim some of that space. First, make sure you can view hidden files and folders. If you've followed my nLite install exactly you'll be able to. If you can't, open up an Explorer window and go to Tools and then Folder Options. On the View tab there's a radio button that says "Show Hidden Files and Folders." Click that radio button and then click "Ok." Navigate to C:\Windows and check out all of the blue folders that begin with "$NtUninstall." ALL Of these folders can safely be deleted, as well as the "$hf_mig$" folder. Delete all of them. The Windows directory also contains a lot of log files that begin with "KB," and all of these log files can be deleted as well. Delete all of them. We're not done yet. Navigate to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download. There are (for me) 345MB of additional files in this directory, all of which can be deleted. To do this safely, we'll have to temporarily stop the Windows Update service. To do so, click on Start and go to Control Panel and then to Administrative Tools. Double click the Services icon and find the Automatic Updates service in the services list. Right click on it and choose "Stop." Close the Services window and go back to that C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder and delete everything inside it. Let's go back and check the free space on drive C now. That's more like it - only 537MB used.
Performance TweaksDisable Indexing Service Right click on drive C in My Computer and choose Properties. Uncheck the box that says "Allow Indexing Service to index files..." and click Ok. This will save CPU useage and RAM by keeping Windows from indexing the entire file contents of the C drive for quick searches. Indexing might make sense for large, slow drives, but our tiny solid state drive will search fast enough without indexing enabled. Disable Unwanted Startup Programs Click Start and then Run. Type regedit and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Click on the Run folder and notice all of the programs that start up when your Eee starts up. Most of these were installed by installing the drivers from ASUS. You can delete as many of these as you want and your Eee will still start up just fine.
Here's an explanation as to what all of them do, so you can decide if you want to keep them or not. (Default) - Default folder key. Don't delete this. Alcmtr - Application that installs with the audio driver. Delete it. AsusACPIServer - This is the ACPI driver for your Eee. You can safely delete this and the Windows ACPI driver will do a fine job of controlling fan speed with CPU temp. AsusTray - This utility is used to switch between 800x480 and 800x600. If you don't use this, you can delete it to speed up Windows boot time. HotKeyCmds - You can safely delete this and your Fn+[Key] commands will still work fine. IgfxTray - Intel tray icon. Delete it. Persistence - More intel junk. Delete it. RTHDCPL - Installs with the audio driver. Delete it. SkyTel - I think this is part of the modem, which is integrated with the audio chipset. Delete it. Disable Precaching in Firefox If you're going to install and use Firefox, it's best to disable precaching. To make itself "faster," Firefox's default behavior is to look at links on a page, go to each of them "behind the scenes" and start caching files. This way, if you click on one of those links, some of the items at that URL (like the page body itself) will already be downlaoded and cached and browsing will be sped up a bit. On a platform with limited drive space and memory like the Eee (especially if you disabled the page file) this can cause a problem, as Firefox will soon start eating up a lot of memory by precaching pages. To disable this, open up Firefox and in the address bar type about:config and press Enter. Scroll down until you find the line that says "browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers." Double click on that line and change the value from -1 to 0 and click Ok.
Close Firefox and re-open it and precaching will be disabled. |
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