Does reinstall win7 make poor Asus better?

Hello!
I have an Asus Eee R11CX (ca 5 yrs old) with Intel N2600 (320 GB HDD) and Windows 7 Starter installed, among several Asus stuff.

Im thinking of giving the machine away to a friends little daughter, and wonder if there would be of any use to make a "format C:" on the computer and then install only the win7 and nothing else?

Would that help the poor machine to get a little bit quicker, or is it a hopeless case with the hardware setup as described..?

Thanx!

BRG/ Örjan.

The faster way to clean and reinstall is to launch a Factory Restore.
It can be done under windows or under BIOS. It will format the C: partition and load a new image stored on the Recovery Partition.
It will end as it was released from Asus. Unfortunately all trash that came with it will be there. And it will need all updates.
Use Dism++10.1.1000.80.zip to update it. Dism++ will do it better than WU and you can skip the spy features.

I did the Factory restore, but with no difference in performance. Is there some easy tutorial on making just a quick and simple Format C: and then install a fresh copy of Win7 ?
/Örjan.

ditto SIW2 on the SSD. You have a 5400rpm drive in there now, even a cheap (<$40) 256GB SSD drive will be miles faster.

the factory restore should have made it faster, if the slowdown was windows fault. You might want to temporarily uncheck everything on start > run > msconfig to make sure bloatware is not slowing it down.

Excellent, thanx!

Megahertz07 said:

The faster way to clean and reinstall is to launch a Factory Restore.
It can be done under windows or under BIOS. It will format the C: partition and load a new image stored on the Recovery Partition.
It will end as it was released from Asus. Unfortunately all trash that came with it will be there. And it will need all updates.
Use Dism++10.1.1000.80.zip to update it. Dism++ will do it better than WU and you can skip the spy features.

This seems the best way to re-install the OS.

I know you don't want this advice but in the happenstance that anyone reading can take advantage of improving an old ASUS EeePC 1025C I offer a great solution that worked for me.


I think keeping Windows on this machine will always be sluggish. But a Linux distro Peppermint ( Peppermint 9 Released. - Peppermint - The Linux Desktop OS ) will work much better. And it is a close facsimile to the Windows experience. I knew next to nothing about Linux but this OS was pretty easy to install and setup.


John

The main limitation isn't the Win 7 starter. It's the laptop itself.
The Intel Atom® Processor N2600 is the bottom line Intel processor.
The best you can do to increase performance is to install a SSD.