Windows 7 beta seems to be very solid without many bugs and what is so impressive is that it runs quite well on very slow computers. For a well written guide how to download and install Windows 7 beta read this guide at Gizmodo.

For my Windows 7 installation on my Eeepc 900, I have found that there are two major things to do which speeds up the OS further.

1) Change main Windows 7 theme to any of the lighter “simple style” themes. There is a “simple style” theme which looks similar to the standard Windows 7 theme.

2) Use a USB memory, SD card or almost any other flash memory to boost your OS using ReadyBoost. To do this, just plug in, ie a USB memory stick, and choose ReadyBoost from the autoplay menu which pops up, the more memory you allocate, the better. Alternatively, if you have autoplay disabled, you can open explorer and right click on the memory stick, click on preferences and check out the ReadyBoost tab.

This is what I found out so far and if you know any other easy and powerful ways, let us know in the comments.

Bonusinfo: Some guidelines about how to install Windiws 7, only related to Eeepc.

Today the EEE PC 900 was available for sale in an electric market in Shanghai.

They offered both versions, 20 Gb with Linux or 12 Gb with Windows. The price for both versions were 3999 Yuan (about USD 570). They did not seem to be willing to do anything on that price and that is also the same experience I have from when the 701 was released back in November.

On this (crappy) photo, you can see both the 701 and the 900.

I didn’t have time to stay long but I they quickly let me know that they offered a copy of English XP together with the Lunux version for free

Tomorrow I will go back again. Any request for what I should check?