{"id":7455,"date":"2009-02-10T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-install-windows-7-on-an-eeepc-1000h\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:25:07","slug":"how-to-install-windows-7-on-an-eeepc-1000h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-install-windows-7-on-an-eeepc-1000h\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Install Windows 7 on an eeePC 1000H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I installed and set up <strong>Windows 7<\/strong> on my <strong>ASUS 1000H netbook<\/strong>. It wasn&#8217;t exactly difficult to do, but given that gathered a few strands of information from a few different sources, I thought I&#8217;d share the whole process with my fellow 1000H users, and anyone else who might be interested in the latest version of Windows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/02\/windows-7-1000h-2.png\" alt=\"windows-7-1000h-2.png\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start off with a list of the downloads you&#8217;ll need to get everything up and running, but you can also download a <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidshare.com\/files\/196430526\/eeePC-windows7-drivers-utilities.zip\"><strong>special ZIP file<\/strong><\/a> I&#8217;ve made for this post, which also includes installers for <strong>Firefox<\/strong>, <strong>Adobe Flash<\/strong>, <strong>AVG<\/strong> and various other utilities I consider to be essential in a fresh install.<\/p>\n<h2>What you will need<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Asus eeePC 1000H (mine has RAM upgraded to 2GB)<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 Beta disk (get this from Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/beta-download.aspx\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>USB DVD drive (installing from a flash drive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askvg.com\/how-to-create-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-windows-vista\/\">may be possible<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed ACPI drivers (download <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidshare.com\/files\/181422571\/Asus_ACPI_Driver.zip\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ralink wifi driver for Vista (download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralinktech.com.tw\/data\/drivers\/IS_AP_STA_RT2860_D-1.2.1.0_VA-2.1.2.0_RU-2.1.9.0_VA-2.2.4.0_AU_2.0.9.0_VA-2.0.9.0_111108_1.0.6.0_Free.exe\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Intel graphics driver for Vista (download <a href=\"http:\/\/downloadmirror.intel.com\/16312\/a08\/winvista_1583.exe\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>ASUS SuperHybridEngine (download <a href=\"http:\/\/dlcdnet.asus.com\/pub\/ASUS\/EeePC\/EeePC1000H\/SupHybridEngine_XP_080630.zip\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Or just download <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidshare.com\/files\/196430526\/eeePC-windows7-drivers-utilities.zip\"><strong>this ZIP file<\/strong><\/a> which includes all of the above drivers, as well as various other handy utilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step one &#8211; preparing the 1000H for Windows 7<\/h2>\n<p>I had two partitions on my 1000H: one for Windows XP Home (default OEM install) and one for Mac OS 10.5.5. Installing Windows 7 will overwrite your Windows XP partition, but it won&#8217;t affect your OS X installation&#8230; much (more on that later). As with any OS installation, the first thing I did on my 1000H was back up any photos, documents etc, on either my Windows or OS X partitions, just in case.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re sure that you&#8217;re ready to go, connect your DVD drive via USB and restart your 1000H. It&#8217;s impossible to upgrade directly from Windows XP at the moment, though this will probably change with the retail version of Windows 7.<\/p>\n<h2>Step two &#8211; installing from the Windows 7 DVD<\/h2>\n<p>Once you restart your 1000H, make hit F2 to enter your BIOS settings and ensure that you have the CD\/DVD drive selected as your preferred boot device, then boot into the DVD. When you see the welcome window, select your locale and keyboard preferences (interestingly, these settings didn&#8217;t stick for me: I had to configure the Spanish keyboard on my 1000H once Windows 7 was up and running). Next, hit <strong>Install now<\/strong> and you&#8217;re required to accept the terms and conditions of the Beta.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, you&#8217;re asked if you want to upgrade or perform a custom (brand new) installation. At this point, you can select <strong>Upgrade<\/strong>, even if you had XP Home installed before. The installer should spot your existing installation after a few seconds and will display the standard warning that your old files and apps will be moved to a <code>Windows.0<\/code> folder. Personally, I usually back up the things I need and delete this folder as it often takes up a lot of space on the HDD.<\/p>\n<p>Now just let the installer run. When I did it, the whole installation only took about 20 minutes. Don&#8217;t forget to keep your Windows 7 product key handy in order to complete the install.<\/p>\n<h2>Step three &#8211; updating the drivers &amp; installing utilities<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/02\/windows-7-1000h-1.png\" alt=\"windows-7-1000h-1.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Once Windows 7 is up and running, you&#8217;ll need to install the ACPI,&nbsp; wireless and graphics drivers. Set the Intel graphics driver to use Vista compatibility mode or otherwise it won&#8217;t run properly. You may need to restart your 1000H a couple of times during this step.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>ASUS SuperHybridEngine<\/strong> works fine in Windows 7, as do the ASUS hotkeys controlling volume, brightness and so on. Once everything was set up, I tested the <strong>Windows Experience Index<\/strong> and got a score of 2.3, which really isn&#8217;t that bad for a lightweight notebook.<\/p>\n<h2>Final observations<\/h2>\n<p>In all, Windows 7 runs very well on my 1000H, and the user interface and response times seem better than on XP. Boot takes 32 seconds, which is a good 17 seconds faster than Mac OS 10.5.5 on the same machine. Windows 7 doesn&#8217;t feel too buggy, so far, so it&#8217;s great to see that Microsoft have finally come up with a decent successor to XP. It&#8217;s definitely a recommended upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows 7 bootloader did remove (or at least hide) the option to boot into OS X. To fix this, I simply ran <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/dl.php?id=1\">NeoSmart EasyBCD<\/a> to force it to display OS X as an option. The first time I did this, I broke the Windows bootloader too, but this was easily fixed by booting with the Windows 7 install DVD and fixing the installation.<\/p>\n<p>[With thanks to: <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.eeeuser.com\/viewtopic.php?id=57226\">EeeUser forum<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I installed and set up Windows 7 on my ASUS 1000H netbook. 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