I thought that windows was a bit sluggish, and as i wanted to start testing games out, i decided to shell out about £20 on 2Gb or RAM for the little black beast.

As I thought others mite want to do the same, but be less techy than me i decided to write a guide for you.

Let me start by saying its not a very hard job at all. You will need:

1* 2Gb Stick of Laptop 200pin RAM (I chose some from Corsair, as I like the brand and have always used them for memory with no issues)
1* Cross head screwdriver
1* EeePC
1*Worktop
1* Radiator, or other earthing point

Enought of that.. lets begin! (I will let the pics do most of the talking and at the end i will talk about which RAM you should choose).

Shiney new Corsair RAM for my EeePC from Amazon

The underside of my Eee PC, note the 2 screws we need to remove (1 is under the white EeePC sticker).

remove the battery pack, just to be on the safe side, as we are opening her up.

This is the inside of the EeePC, under the black plastic, you need to lift this up to get at the memory, its very thin.

This is how the 2 ram modules compare

Move the clips left and right of the modual outwoods, the ram should then hinge up, then slide out.

Insert the new ram push it all the way in then hinge it down, it should click into place

Put the battery back back in and tun it on.

Here are the results, 2Gb of ram in the EeePC!

It makes the PC feel a lot faster, especially when using GIMP.

I chose Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 667Mhz 2Gb 200pin ram, this was from amazon

My EEEpc 901 came with XP installed on it, but most of the following will apply to all netbook users, and home users looking for more space on there computer, as well as more light weight, or free programs to use.

For starters, my 901 came bundled with quite alot of software on it. I have started off by removing things!

I removed Adobe Acrobat Reader, this is used for .pdf files. It was removed and replaced with Sumatra. This is an open source, free light weight pdf viewer.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download.html

I removed MS works, as its a very bulky document processor. I installed OpenOffice in its place. This is another Open Source, so yes its free!, program which can do all that Microsoft Office can do… and more! I love the export as pdf feature. It can open anything MS can throw at it too and if its not how you want it there are thousands of plugins and mods available for it too.

http://www.openoffice.org/

I also removed STAR Office which i found in my programs list, i had a quick look at it. Its based on Open Office, but looking at the file sizes is alot bigger and has annoying features like a built in search box. I didnt stay long in it. I know OpenOffice will do the job perfectly well no need for anything else!

I also installed FileZilla, MSN Live (could have used Pidgen, but i like the games), Notepad++, Thunderbird and Lighting, and STEAM for my games!

Everything should be installed to the D: drive.

To free up space on the eeepcs C: drive, i moved the My Documents folder. Right click your My Documents in the start menu > properties > find target. Now you can make a new folder on your D: drive and your documents will be saved there!

I also reduced the ammount of space allocated to the system restore. Go:

start>accessories>system tools>system restore >system restore settings> select the C: drive and click settings, then reduce the amount allocated on the scroll bar.

Hope this helps. Will let you know what else i find as i go!