I just got a Asus G1, can anyone reccomend me any steps before I settle in?

Im thinking about partitioning the harddrive, maybe 40GB C drive (for programs) and D drive for file storage. Maybe 10GB of E drive as a video/photoshop editing scratch drive?

Also, I heard there is a ton of bloatware on this laptop. Should I clean install the windows XP that comes with it, or would manual unintalling take care of everything?

 

I would do a clean install of XP because bloatware does have a habit, somehow, of leaching back unto the HDD. In addition, at least with a few Dell's I've known, removing them manually can cause instability. Esp with McAfee/Norton Hog.

 

did u get it yet or did u just order it?

 

going through msconfig helped me out a lot with the startup speed. as of now i only uninstalled the norton antivirus program. all the rest is just disabled at startup. having the G1 now for about 3 weeks it is still running very stable. and fast.

 

Here's what I suggest as soon as you get it, make sure your hard drive partitions are they way you want them. Once that is done, move to the next step which is making the system run as smoothly and as fast as possible.

So you can try to remove certain programs, startup programs, and the like. If you feel that this is not satisfactory for you in terms of overall performance.

Go right away and format, you will already have you hard drive partitioned the right way, plus you get a second chance to fix it if you decide to make a change to the partitions. Plis you would have only spent 1-2 hours trying to tweak the current state of the notebook.

Then install windows and all your applications after, this way you don't waste and excessive amount of time and you get the maximum performance.