[Woolie Wool]

It came with my netbook. To honest I think i'm stuck with it. Unless I can cram another OS onto a 2gig SD card or a 16gig usb stick.
 
 
I wouldn't know how to install another one without a dvd drive anyway

This is why no one in the civilized world should buy a netbook either. Any computer without an optical drive is garbage in my opinion.

[Colonol Dekker]

Don't hate the product because yet don't have a need / appreciate it's benefits.
 
On that note, I downloaded that .ISO that was linked earlier. It's on a 2gig SD card. Now what? Ie. . . Bios boot priority options, what would the sd slot be called?

[jr2]

Colonel, try this (see attached .zip file) - I don't know if it will work as I don't have 7 Sucky Edtion, ( ) I scanned it with AVG Free Edition 9 with the latest definition updates as well as MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware and it came up clean - see if it does the trick for you.

EDIT: If not, maybe try this? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/47294-desktop-background-change-windows-7-starter.html

EDIT2: Right-click and "Run as Adminitrator..." for both of those, just to be sure permissions doesn't get the last laugh.

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[DeepSpace9er]

There is an Anytime upgrade feature on EVERY version of Windows 7 except Ultimate, for obvious reasons. So the Starter has all the features of Ultimate already installed.. they just are disabled due to licensing. You can get a Home Premium upgrade license for, i think $80. Enter it in, and poof.. all the features are enabled without the need to reinstall anything. The Starter license is only worth $30, so there really isnt anything to complain about, especially since you paid a few hundred for a netbook. Basically, you underpaid for your netbook and are angry it isnt what it would be if it were more expensive.

[Nuke]

It came with my netbook. To honest I think i'm stuck with it. Unless I can cram another OS onto a 2gig SD card or a 16gig usb stick.
 
 
I wouldn't know how to install another one without a dvd drive anyway

This is why no one in the civilized world should buy a netbook either. Any computer without an optical drive is garbage in my opinion.

i can see where netbooks have a niche though. the idea is that most computer users really dont use anything but the internet anyway. those kinda people can now get a netbook and enjoy really long ****ing battery life compared to most standard notebooks (i get 3 hours tops with my asus laptop, compared to somewhere between 6 and 10 with a netbook), in a package thats light enough to carry around with you all the time. also if youre in an eary of dense hotspots they can also come in handy. while most of us hardcore users wouldnt have a need for such a pewny machine, and would much rather suffer the act of carrying around 30 pounds of computer, backup batteries, power cables, and software than not be able to back up our files on the bus and install games during lunch at work and play them later on during class (*nuke remember his old clevo*).

me personally i do without my computers when im on the move just because its too much ****ing stuff to carry, which sucks especially when you need to carry other things. i kinda wanted to see the evolution of arm based pdas but theyve been replaced by the smart phone (which sucks because i hate phones). its nice to see x86 come down in size though, some of them even have 3d accel, so you can play some games on them (assuming you rip and virtualize the image or use a nocd crack). me personally id like to see the death of the 12 cm disk format in favor of a high density 8cm optical format, or some bastard offspring of blue-ray and mini-disk (should they ever have sex).

[Colonol Dekker]

DS9er, I didn't underpay at all. I made an informed decision based on specs and I couldn't be happier with the hardware. The os isn't permanent so I don't see a problem.
 
Not tried the wallpaper changer yet as i'm experimenting with ubuntu netbook express remix once I download the thing.


My specs here

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/notebook-computers/n-series/NP-N110-KA02UK/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=spec&fullspec=F

[Nuke]

no really that bad, but id rather get a netbook with a better gpu.

[Colonol Dekker]

As would i, but i got this for Truespaceing, modding and general faffing around on the daily commute.

I get pissed off with people reading my paper on the train. If i had them shoulder surfing me as i was disarming the Sath i'd be all RAWR! and stuff.........

[Colonol Dekker]

Ubuntu, GIMP, and WINE could help you, if you want to take the plunge and go for a Linux netbook. I'd recommend it.

you can install them side by side, though no guarantees are made I've personally never lost a windows install to ubuntu, and you should be able to boot from a usb flash drive.

Right, i've got Ubunto Netbook Remix on a USB drive, all set to boot from. Bios is a go. I'm just waiting for some feedback from Boboau or Galemp regarding Dual booting.... What do i need (if anything) to perform such a configuration?

So far as mentioned, i've got the ubuntou OS setup on a flashdrive which is good to go....

[Topgun]

use puppy linux to swap the image, no need to take the drive out or anything.

[Colonol Dekker]

What the sweet galloping cheesy jesus is puppy linux?

[Gortef]

A nice small and light Linux. Quite sweet actually.

Anyways. Since I had some extra time I did some Googling.

First I found this:
http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/03/28/surprise-you-cant-change-your-wallpaper-in-windows-7-starter-edition/

Then from the comments I found this:
http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/03/31/correction-starter-wallpaper-more-secure-than-i-thought/comment-page-2/#comment-5295

The second link should point into a specific comment to tell ya how to change the wp using the regedit.

Maybe that helps.

[Colonol Dekker]

The kind soul who posted the exe link earlier solved that issue. I've put Ubuntu on my netbook and have absolutely no clues as to how it works aside from the quite nifty OS. . . . As ubuntu doesn't support my wireless adapter
 
Win7 does though

[Nuke]

i found that linux could work with wireless with some persuasion. by work i mean sometimes work, and not using the latest encryption, and after rebooting a couple times, and draining half your battery in the process.

[Gortef]

Oh, issue solved? Good then.

[Colonol Dekker]

Thanks

[S-99]

Everything colonel dekker listed what he uses the netbook for he can get done in linux, either way truespace works through wine pretty good. This is why linux has live cd's. Use the unetbootin utility, along with an ubuntu iso, and a memory card or usb flash drive. Then give linux a spin via live cd via mobile flash memory on your netbook.

I don't recommend dual booting unless you truly need too. The idea that someone would use one os more than the other is sort of dumb. For linux there's thousands of free programs that can take up the slack for what you're looking for, after that wine may support the program you keep switching over to windows for if there truly is no linux equivalent. Other than that, if you use one more than the other, then just use the one you use more often all the time (this is why people shouldn't care for dual boot unless there's a legitimate purpose for it aside from trying out an os ocasionaly).

Anyway, ubuntu isn't crippled, you can change your wallpaper in it, and if you must, theme it to look like windows 7 (this really ****s with other people's heads ). Anyway, there's a little help in the direction of how to put a livecd on mobile flash memory.

[Colonol Dekker]

Linux won't detect my wifi card. So no utility downloads on linux. I'm happy just giving it a spin for now.

[S-99]

Find out which wifi card is inside of that thing. And google compatibility in linux with it. You'll be able to research other people's woes and find a solution. Wifi card compatibility in linux is getting great, but it's not quite all there yet. Sorry if you ended up with a product that was the small percentage.

You may need to end up using ndiswrapper. It's a cool little thing that lets you load windows network drivers in linux to make networking devices work.