Setting up an Asus netbook practically does not differ from setting up a netbook of any other manufacturers and involves installing the necessary programs and utilities, as well as computer hardware drivers that can be downloaded on the Internet.
OS installation
Depending on where and under what conditions you purchased the netbook, it will or will not have one or another operating system installed. If your computer is not equipped with an OS, then you will need to install it yourself. To do this, you need to create a bootable USB flash drive with the operating system, because there is no floppy drive on the netbook. This procedure can be carried out using programs for recording information on disks or in image files. One of these programs is the UltraISO program. After creating a bootable flash drive, insert it into the USB port and turn on the netbook. In the BIOS settings, set the priority for booting from a flash drive, and not from a hard drive. After the reboot, the OS installation will begin, the installation wizard will guide you through this procedure.
Installing Drivers
Setting up any computer begins with installing all the necessary drivers. In order to understand which devices on the netbook require installation, open "My Computer" in the "Start" menu and click on the "System Properties" button. In the left part of the window, click on the item "Device Manager". A window will appear showing all connected netbook devices. Those items in the list that are highlighted in yellow are hardware whose drivers are not available on the netbook. In order to install them, you must first download all driver packages via the Internet or use a driver disk, if available. Today, almost all netbook manufacturers upload drivers for their products to their official website. This also applies to Asus. Go to the company's website and, going to the "Support" section, download all the necessary drivers. Then return to the "Device Manager", select the item that requires installation, and right-click. In the context menu that opens, click on "Install driver". Next, an installation wizard will appear, in which you will need to select a source for installing the driver, after which the driver will be installed automatically.
Installing programs
There is a set of applications that almost every computer user needs. These include archivers, programs for editing text information, programs for reading book documents, burning discs, Internet browsers, etc. To begin with, you should immediately install the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser to optimize your work on the Internet. Further, to install each of the programs, you need to download the installation files. Among the above programs, there are a large number of free ones. Among archivers, the 7Zip program is free, among text editing programs - Open Office, Adobe Reader and DJVU Reader will help to read books.
