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1. Pitape wrote, on December 11th, 2008:

   

   Thanks for this great post. Does it work with XP with the same EXE and REG files?

2. Morris Lee wrote, on December 11th, 2008:

   

   yes

3. kamran wrote, on December 22nd, 2008:

   

   when i click on the ewf.reg link, it opens a new page. how do i download the reg file?

4. Morris Lee wrote, on December 22nd, 2008:

   

   right click and click download as

5. Peter wrote, on December 29th, 2008:

   

   The ewf.exe seems to be corrupted. Can you please check it?

   Thanks.

6. Morris Lee wrote, on December 29th, 2008:

   

   @Peter,

   Thank you for bringing it up, I recompiled another one, please try again.

7. Peter wrote, on December 29th, 2008:

   

   Thanks, it’s good now.

8. Cecil wrote, on December 29th, 2008:

   

   Are all accessories working? Wifi, Camera and etc… Many thanks for your great effort to help aspire one users! Up for this guy!

9. Morris Lee wrote, on December 29th, 2008:

   

   Yes, they are all working

10. jeff wrote, on January 12th, 2009:

    

    I know this is an Acer blog, but are these instructions specific to acer ssds? The reg file in particular looks to have vendor IDs and I’d rather not reinstall just yet

11. Morris Lee wrote, on January 12th, 2009:

    

    I never tested on the other machines but it should work with all of them, since it is not vendor ID’s they are just keys that looks specifically like that.

12. Philip Mallapre wrote, on January 14th, 2009:

    

    Hi, Just like to know if the ewf.reg is okay to use in windows xp?

    I already enabled EWF on my AAO with winXP pro but when I restart it keeps telling me that my machine did not shutdown correctly.

    do I need to create the shortcut in the startup folder “ewfmgr c: -commit” to solve the issue?

13. Morris Lee wrote, on January 14th, 2009:

    

    @Philip,

    Yes, you have to add the ewfmgr c: -commit

    just put that ina shortcut and copy it to the startup folder, then you are all set

14. Philip Mallapre wrote, on January 14th, 2009:

    

    Thanks Morris,

    but you have’nt answered if it’s ok to use the ewf.reg on winXP.

15. Morris Lee wrote, on January 14th, 2009:

    

    “”Pitape wrote, on December 11th, 2008:

    Thanks for this great post. Does it work with XP with the same EXE and REG files?

    Morris Lee wrote, on December 11th, 2008:

    yes”

16. hansveli wrote, on January 15th, 2009:

    

    Does the XP work at “normal” speed with the EWF?

17. jeff wrote, on January 15th, 2009:

    

    FWIW, I wasn’t able to get it working with the supplied ewf.reg and a G.Skill FM-25S2S-128GB ssd. I took out the following values:

    “VolumeID”=”{1EA414D1-6760-4625-8CBE-4F9F85A48E15}”

    from

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ewf\Parameters\Protected\Volume0]

    And I did NOT add the following: (though vista adds a very similar entry when enabling..

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ewf\Enum]
    “0″=”Root\\LEGACY_EWF\000″
    “Count”=dword:00000003
    “NextInstance”=dword:00000003
    “1″=”STORAGE\\Volume\\1&19f7e59c&0&Signature9DF9E9A8Offset100000Length1E0D00000″
    “2″=”STORAGE\\Volume\\1&19f7e59c&0&_??_SCSI#Disk&Ven_JMCR&Prod_SD#MMC&Rev_#5&e1d8a3b&0&000000#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}”

18. Morris Lee wrote, on January 15th, 2009:

    

    @Jeff,

    Yes, this reg file should be strictly designed for the SSD, or the device configuration on Aspire One, it has only been tested on the 8 GB SSD on Aspire One

19. jeff wrote, on January 16th, 2009:

    

    cool. thanks for getting me in the right direction.

20. Morris Lee wrote, on January 16th, 2009:

    

    @jeff,

    Anytime my friend

    Cheers!

21. Tomas Kapler wrote, on January 16th, 2009:

    

    i just got dell E4200 with 4 GB ram and 128 GB SSD. I have installed there 64bit Windows 7 and i wonder if i can test ewf as well and if I will see some improvement (it is bloody fast even now). Do you think i can try it even on windows 7 and even on 64bit, or i would need som 64bit driver?
    P.S.: i have tried to install windows 7 on my HP 700 netbook, and it is very fast even without EWF – faster then XP

22. Morris Lee wrote, on January 17th, 2009:

    

    @Tomas Kapler,

    I am sorry, this should only work with the 32BIT windows, both the software and the driver is 32BIT editions.

    there are 2 types of SSD, MLC and SLC, only reason that Aspire One needs this mod is because Windows can’t handle MLC SSD’s well.

    Seems like you have SLC, so don’t worry about it.

23. Jason wrote, on January 17th, 2009:

    

    Hiya im pritty noob with this, i have enabled ewf, and i get the problem where when i restart it claims i didnt shut down properly, how do i solve this?
    Also i forgot to take off some programs before i enabled EWF how do i remove them from the flash drive? Im not sure how to turn off EWF or enable it.
    IF you could explain in laymans terms that would be great!
    Thanks

24. Morris Lee wrote, on January 17th, 2009:

    

    @Jason,

    Put a shortcut to “ewfmgr c: -commit” in the startup folder, once that is done, run it once, and then reboot the laptop

25. Grothe wrote, on January 18th, 2009:

    

    I try to install ewf with Windows 7 on my Aspire One 8G.
    But i have a blue screen and the system reboot.
    I need a solution please

    Thnk you

26. Morris Lee wrote, on January 18th, 2009:

    

    @Grothe,

    Somewhere mentioned that updateing the BIOS will fix Win 7 Installation

27. sgrothe wrote, on January 19th, 2009:

    

    Windows 7 work fine without ewf, but it is not working with ewf. I have e blue screen et the one reboot.

28. Morris Lee wrote, on January 19th, 2009:

    

    In windows 7, you should not use ewf, it is designed to detect either HDD or SSD is used on the specific machine it is installed on, it also has been optimized for SSD’s,

    so, this mod is unnecessary for Windows 7 OS

29. David wrote, on January 25th, 2009:

    

    Hi Morris. Great post here. I’m on the process of installing Vista on my Aspire One 8GB. I just have one question, will the left SD slot function the same as using Linpus where it adds the free space to the SSD? Thanks.

30. Morris Lee wrote, on January 25th, 2009:

    

    @David,

    no, vista does not have such option, but i think this gives you more control on where you want to store the files, and if anything ever goes wrong, files on SD card is separated from the HDD, things should be more intact. let me know if the reg and the exe works

31. Mike Kelly wrote, on January 25th, 2009:

    

    Will the XP drivers work for vista? I got no network drivers.

32. Morris Lee wrote, on January 25th, 2009:

    

    @Mike Kelly,

    the Wireless and the LAN one should work on Vista, but, when connected, go to the windows update download the network driver update for the LAN only, keep the wireless on XP driver, the one from MS seems to have issues.

33. awang wrote, on February 9th, 2009:

    

    hi morris, i have try your procedure. but after i put a new entry in my windows vista registry and then AAO have reboot. i cannot start windows vista again. because i have get a error message.
    thanks

34. Morris Lee wrote, on February 10th, 2009:

    

    @awang,

    What message did you get?

35. Adrian wrote, on February 14th, 2009:

    

    Hi Morris nice post!
    I just installed vista on my aspireone AOA150 but somehow when I try to play a video in WMP it starts very laggy and after a few seconds the video kind of plays better but still not smooth.
    I installed the video driver via Device manager.
    Also the synaptics touchpad sometimes stops working when I try to use the vertical scrolling feature and I need to restart the netbook so the pointer works again.
    And last, I’m not able to use aero nor 3d flip desktop and the gaming graphics rating of windows experience is 1.0 (which I think is normal)
    I only have 1gb Ram and already ordered a 1gb sodimm but haven’t got it yet.
    Do you know what could be the problem with this issues??
    Many thanks in advance!

36. Morris Lee wrote, on February 15th, 2009:

    

    @Adrian,

    download the latest driver from Intel, install it normally, it might help

    for Synaptics Touchpad, find your SynTPEnh.exe in the program folder, once you found it, terminate in task manager, and set compatbility to Windows XP

    Aero should work, you probably installed XP driver. make sure you get Vista driver directly from intel

37. Adrian wrote, on February 15th, 2009:

    

    Thanks Morris I will try the driver from Intel website.
    About the synaptics touchpad driver I downloaded the driver for vista (and it works flawless now) from http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers/
    I didn’t do this before ’cause in many forums people claimed the xp driver worked well with vista and I didn’t knew there was a dedicated driver for vista. Maybe I did something wrong with the xp driver and messed it up.
    Another quick question, the driver’s link you provide are the ones from xp righ?? Are there any other drivers specifically for vista like the one from the Touchpad??
    Thanks Morris

38. Adrian wrote, on February 15th, 2009:

    

    Hey it’s good to tell you that everything is working excellent now.
    Downloaded the video driver from http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16312/a08/winvista_1583.exe&agr=&ProductID=2301&DwnldId=16312&strOSs=&OSFullName=&lang=eng

    Thank you so much Moriis

39. Morris Lee wrote, on February 15th, 2009:

    

    @Adrian,

    the reason I am using the XP driver provided by Acer is because it supports multi-touch.

    I am using the Touchpad XP driver on windows 7 with multi-touch flawlessly.

40. -matej wrote, on February 16th, 2009:

    

    Hey.. gr8 post. but i have a problem.. i aplied the reg file, installed the exe, put in the reg string… than i restarted the machine, and then i got blue screen…
    what could be wrong?
    schould i run the command directly after installing the exe, and then restart?

    Thanks!

41. Morris Lee wrote, on February 17th, 2009:

    

    @matej,

    do you have XP or vista? the reg file should work with vista only

42. Synchro 0 » Blog Archive » Acelerando AspireOne con WinXP y SSD wrote, on March 6th, 2009:

    [...] Misma aspire one pero usando vista Misceláneos [...]

43. jonny wrote, on March 20th, 2009:

    

    Hi – I tried using this method on a 16Gig SSD Acer Aspire One, first with XP, but got a blue screen. Then I reinstalled with Vista, having taken on board your last comment, but I get a blue screen again. Any ideas? I followed the instructions to the letter, and was just restarting to go in and set the ewfmgr running.

    Thanks

44. jonny wrote, on March 20th, 2009:

    

    by the way, i’ve just managed to log on again using system restore to avoid the bsod. any thoughts you have on how i can make this work next time though, would be very gratefully received! It is running horrendously slowly at the moment. One thing to point out is that I’d only installed the Intel chipset drivers before trying your mod. Not sure if there are any other drivers it needed to work properly?

45. Morris Lee wrote, on March 20th, 2009:

    

    @jonny,

    the 16 GB probably has a different device ID, so the registry file may not apply here. I thought the 16 GB edition runs XP fine though.

46. jonny wrote, on March 21st, 2009:

    

    thanks morris – i had some weird problems with the xp (lots of lags and hangs) – and prefer vista anyway. can you think of any way to get your install to work with the 16gb? is it possible to adjust the registry file for the device ID for a 16gb? it would be fantastic if poss! vista running pretty well, though it has its very slow moments…

    do you have much fan noise, by the way?

47. Morris Lee wrote, on March 21st, 2009:

    

    @jonny,

    you can find the detailed information here, http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=833

    but I don’t know if that will be able to apply to your case.

48. jonnyf wrote, on March 22nd, 2009:

    

    hey, thanks again morris – i’m nearly there. no more bsod. however, i have one final problem…having installed the ewfmgr and ewf.sys, and inserted the reg keys, i’m logged on as an administrator, but whenever i try to run ewfmgr c: -enable, i get the following error :

    Failed opening the target device \\.\c: with error 5
    Access is denied.

    Any ideas? it’s driving me crazy…

49. Morris Lee wrote, on March 22nd, 2009:

    

    @jonny,

    I really don’t know, but it looks like the target volume is not specified properly, that is probably why “Access is denied”

    you sure you have UAC disabled or ran cmd as administrator using right click -> run as administrator?

50. jonnyf wrote, on March 24th, 2009:

    

    You are such a star – thanks so much. You’ve nailed it; user access control was enabled, and that was what caused the problems. it is incredible how much quicker the laptop is now. absolutely incredible.

51. jonny wrote, on March 24th, 2009:

    

    hey – what are your tips to avoid filling up the 512 mb of ram space? i’m finding that it gets full pretty quickly. i have disabled the swap drive, but are there any other simple alterations I should try to implement? i’m wondering whether web cache should be stored on different drive, etc?
    thanks!

52. Morris Lee wrote, on March 25th, 2009:

    

    @jonny,

    you can try disabling the processes and services

    for processes, download autorun from microsoft, it is easier for removing unnecessary entries such as Adobe Speed Launcher (reader_sl.exe)

    for services just open the run window and run “services.msc” this brings up a window that can enable and disable services on start up, couple of them I would disable would be:

    -Windows Search(uses a lot resources, very unnecessary on a low powered and small storage computer)

    -Superfetch it preloads the usual data for programs you usually use, HOGS RAM!

    just read the description on the left panel you will be able to identify what you need or don’t need.

    once that is all done, google “disable prefetch” prefetch is like the old version of superfetch-ish, also takes RAM, but this has to be disabled through registry.

    when prefetch is disabled, reboot, and open run window, run “prefetch” without quotes, in that folder that pops up, delete everything in there.

    now you should have a fast Aspire One! oh yeah, the boot speed on the SSD is faster then a 5400rpm 2.5 inch drive, it is a good thing sometimes.

53. jonny wrote, on March 25th, 2009:

    

    thanks morris – i suppose we’re creating a repository of useful information for aa1 users here, so i hope you don’t mind me asking a couple of other niggly questions? you’ve been incredibly helpful so please tell me to go away if i’m ‘outstaying my welcome’!

    have you found a way of deactivating the fan that doesn’t crash regularly? i tried aa1fancontrol or whatever it’s called but found that the computer would switch off, even if the temp was only 45 or so celsius.

    some users seem to think it’s worth creating a ramdrive for writing browser tmp files to. have you tried this, and does it make a difference to the speed with which the ewf buffer fills up?

    do you know how to move your profile to a separate non ewf’d sd card? that seems to be the key to improving the usability of the ewf based aa1 tweak.

    do you have aero running on yours? if it works, i’d quite like to enable it. i don’t suppose you’ve experience of bolting it onto a vista home basic install, do you?

    finally, may i put your response to my last question on the aspireoneuser forum so that other users there have that really helpful information? i asked the same questions there as well. perhaps easiest for me to just link though.

54. Morris Lee wrote, on March 25th, 2009:

    

    @jonny,

    No no, I don’t mind, I love answering good questions on this site, one of the things I do on my spare time. (Keeps me out of trouble, I mean uh… lol)

    Fan, uhmm, there is 2, a1ctl and aspire one fan control, which is here http://www.computentsystems.de/aceraspireonefancontrol/

    RAM drive, I think this one should be easy, you probably can only use USB flash disks since non of the card reader will be “working” untill ALL drivers are initialed(when windows finish starting up). but a USB flash disk, it will be recognized in the BIOS, windows can take advantage of it right at initial boot.

    Aero, HEHE, mua-ha muah-ha muah-ha-ha-ha!! OF COURSE! aero works(did you see the last 2 pics in this guide?) just go to intel’s driver page, download the driver for intel 945 laptop chipset driver, install it, reboot should have the Aero option available in the personalization window.

    aspireoneuser…… good site in away, little secretive, google can’t pickup the forum contents, only the title URL, the search is only available if you registered, so finding info on there is trouble some. but I pretty much been through all the important threads there. I am a very big data base~~

    probably it is a better idea to ask here anyways, google search can pickup these posts, everyone can see, ask, search.

    oh man, I have issues, I started replying to people in article length now…

    Have a good one~~

55. Sushimaster wrote, on May 5th, 2009:

    

    ‘lo mate!
    Great tut! Is it working for Vista x64 as well?
    However, I’m using another SSD, I guess I have to look for other reg entries. How do I get these Volume IDs and this stuff?

    However, well done!

56. Morris Lee wrote, on May 6th, 2009:

    

    @Sushimaster,

    Aspire One does not work with 64 Bit os at any rate, Atom doesn’t have X86-64. but technically, it would work.

57. Adrian wrote, on May 10th, 2009:

    

    Hi morris!

    I’m getting ready to install the lastest windows 7 RC on my AAO. I’m assuming it would be pretty much the same as installing vista, any advices or something I should be aware of?

    Thanks again morris.

58. Adrian wrote, on May 10th, 2009:

    

    I forgot to mention I’m aware the ewf step won’t be necessary, since you already explained that earlier.

59. Morris Lee wrote, on May 10th, 2009:

    

    @Adrian,

    do you have the SSD version? if it is only 8 gb, you need vlite to shrink it down, possibly no need for ewf.

    advises,

    get all the drivers downloaded and ready to go on a flash drive, backup everything(of course~~) and install from a USB HDD is significantly faster then from a USB flash or USB DVD-ROM.

    good luck and have fun~

60. Marty wrote, on May 10th, 2009:

    

    Hi, great blog … I have finally managed to get rid of linux lipus on my new acer4730z and install windows 7 and office 2007 however the wireless wont work … I can see from various other google searches that this a common problem but I am an idiot and need an idiots guide to getting the wireless working. The RealtexLAC is there but and all the boxes in the connection properties are there but no wireless is found. If you can help then great! Marty

61. Marty wrote, on May 10th, 2009:

    

    Hi, I wanna add that my acer is aspire4730z / 1gbddr2 / 250gbhdd 4500mhd intel accelerator 2ghz 800mhz 1mb processor … it certainly was cheap andpretty enough if only the wireless works! Thanks

62. cuz we r many wrote, on May 13th, 2009:

    

    Hi Morris

    Just tried to execute efw.exe but it seems to be damaged… could you plz verify this?

    thx
    …cuz we r many

63. Morris Lee wrote, on May 15th, 2009:

    

    @cuz we r many,

    yes, it is corrupted, I just rebuilded another, not tested though, hopefully it works. read the info before you click install

64. Daymz wrote, on May 15th, 2009:

    

    You should edit the original article to say it won’t work on Windows 7. (not everyone reads 10 pages worth of user comments before proceeding )

    Now I have to repair my ex-perfectly working install (with system restore disabled.. doh!).

65. jenga wrote, on May 30th, 2009:

    

    any chance of reposting ewf.exe pls?

66. Ana wrote, on September 28th, 2009:

    

    Hi Morris, I just switched from vista to 7 on my aspire one AOA 150 and so far everything is great, my only doubt is the launch manager driver, the one for vista didn’t work, it says there no OS present when I want to install it.

    Could you help me out please??

    Thx Morris

67. Morris Lee wrote, on September 28th, 2009:

    

    @Ana,

    Easy, right click on the setup and click “Compatibility” and use “Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)” apply, ok, and you are good to go.

68. Ana wrote, on September 28th, 2009:

    

    Thanks Morris

69. ahmsag wrote, on October 13th, 2009:

    

    The Link for the exe is down.

    Can you reupload it?

    Thank you

70. Morris Lee wrote, on October 13th, 2009:

    

    @ahmsag,

    I no longer have the file, due to harddrive failure, I will try to see what I have backed up.

71. Ana wrote, on October 27th, 2009:

    

    Hi morris, it’s me again.

    The other day I was doing some things online and all of a sudden I lost my internet connection. At first the wireless network adapter detected some networks but after a few seconds it appeared as disabled in the network and sharing center. I tried to Enable it but it disappeared so I tried to reinstall the drivers but it told me the card was not present.

    I opened the netbook to see if the card was a little loose or something and everything was perfect, I put all the pieces back together and when I turned on the netbook I was able to access my wireless network again.

    All this was 3 days ago, a few minutes ago the same thing happened so I shutdown the netbook and took away the battery, then I waited for about 15 seconds and put the battery back and turned the netbook on, the problem was solved.

    I have this aspireone since december 08 and this thing never happened with XP or Vista, I installed windows 7 2 months ago.

    I’m thinking this could be a temperature related problem but it’s just a guess.

    Do you have an idea what could be wrong with my machine?

    Thanks Morris

72. Morris Lee wrote, on October 27th, 2009:

    

    @Ana,

    it sounds like driver issue, you may want to check the drivers, your windows may have acquired one off Windows update, that one may not work so well with it.

    then again, check if you have installed other hardware, it might not be getting enough power to the card therefore the device is dropping from the motherboard.

73. nadia wrote, on January 20th, 2010:

    

    Hi Morris,

    my fren asked me to upgrade her laptop Aspire 4535 from starter pack to ultimate however during final stage at “Completing installation”, it was hang few hours. i did try installed many times but the result was same. can u help me out on this prob?

74. Morris Lee wrote, on January 20th, 2010:

    

    @nadia,

    Are you doing clean install or an upgrade? do you have grub boot loader(the boot loader for linux)

    I believe the grub bootloader sometimes interfere with vista’s service pack or possibly an upgrade.

    Morris Lee

75. Humberto wrote, on June 28th, 2010:

    

    Hello
    I bought, on eBay, a Aspire One with the 8Gb SSD and with 512Mb memory. The laptop has a faulty screen (broken) and I bought it to use as a “desktop” for internet access and multimedia. The laptop didn’t have any OS installed (when I bought it). I downloaded a recover disk (with linpus) but during recovery the system hangs up. Can you please advise which the best Linux distro for this laptop? Any link for recovery disk (in case problem is with the one I downloaded)?
    Many thanks
    Regards

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