I installed WinXP on the SSD and like it!

I love the AO, but Linpus sucks...really, it is good as a Hasbro or Mattel os, not for a computer user.
After reading all sort of this and that about installing WinXP on the SSD version, how it was soooo slow etc, I finally just decided to install it on
on my 8Gig SSD, with 512MB memory.

I went down to Walmart and purchased am external DVD/burner for $60, and used my 16Gig SD card as additional storage.

Booted off of the WinXP Home Edition, formatted the drive in FAT32 (NOT NTFS), and it installed just fine.

Note: when installing programs and drivers, download them to the SD card and run them from there, this speeds up the installs. Once all of the updates are done and it will take a while, the system runs fine, in fact damn near perfect. I even installed SBMC to play the movies I have on the SD card for my kids to watch.

Battery life is over three hours, I installed a Micro Innovations Bluetooth mini dongle and everything works perfectly, even my Bluetooth headphones using A2DP!

My friend has the 120gig version, and I am not sure I like all of the vibration from the HD version, the quiet and smooth SSD is nice.

Just an FYI

Joao

 

So you didn't do any tweaks ?

 

I did the same thing - with XP Home, 512 MB RAM, 8MB SSD Aspire One.

But I applied tweaks to reduce writes to the SSD (disable prefetch, write caching, system restore and putting the page file on a 4 G SDC.

So far so good - with Avast antivirus, all the drivers installed (Acer) I run at around 300MB memory at boot.

Its a little slower than Linpus, but I like it.

Guy

 

Enabling prefetch, disabling page file and use eboostr program instead will probably make your AAO faster tha linpus.

Prefetch is suppose to preload programs to tbe ram in order for programs to load faster and run more efficiently.

Pagefile is designed for use on HDD. If you use eboostr program to cache your programs, you'll use your 4gb SDHC card more effiently. Flash memory are better with small chunks of data.

 

Tried eBoostr - no apparant effect? Any guidelines for use?

 

I also have XP SP3 installed. I like it so far but would be nice to boot faster and shutdown faster. ;-)

Here is my list of tweeks. (What else can be done?)

noguiboot option.
disable pagefile. (i.e. Virtual Memory)
EnablePrefetcher=2 (A Layout.ini and NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf should be created)
Install AVG but disable email & link scanner
aaocontrol to put the fan in slow mode.
Move Documents & Settings on the SDHC card (D: drive)
Change time to display list of operating systems to 3 sec.
disable D2D in Bios

Service started: (Disable or put to manual the other services)
Automatic Update
AVG Free8 WatchDog
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Cryptographic Services
DCOM Server Process Launcher
DHCP Client
Distributed Link Tracking Client
DNS Client
Event Log
HIS Input Service
IPSEC Services
Plug and Play
Print Spooler
Protected Storage
Remote Procedure Call
Secondary Logon
Security Account Manager
Security Center
Server
Shell Hardware Detection
System Event Notification
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Themes
WebClient
Windows Audio
Windows Firewall
Windows Image Acquisition
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Time
Windows Zero Configuration
Workstation
Application Layer Gateway Service
COM+ Event System
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness
Remote Access Connection Manager
SSDP Discovery Service
Telephony

Cheers,

HVL

 

Instead of shutting down the computer and starting the computer, try hibernation mode. It's a couple times faster than shutting it down and it starts up in about 5 seconds.

Best of all, no tweaks required, even newbies can take advantage of this feature.

 

;-) But I will loose 1gig on an 8 gig SDD a bit anoying.

 

If you don't like hibernating, try standby. AAO 6 cell battery a week in standby mode. The battery drain is pretty low thus can be ignored.

 

Out of the services above that were started, I put some of them manual, so more services are not started:

IPSECS Services
Print Spooler
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
SSDP Discovery Service

Booting is ok for now, Shutting down, is still slow

17/02: Just remove the sound when exiting window, improved shutting down. ;-)

 

Trust me on this one guys, if you are using WinXP on the SSD, install the EWF hack mentioned in the other posts. The speed increase is simply unbelievable.