Asus eee file manager

Links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The tool is called RazorClaw. By Carl Parker. A fully charged battery. This prevents the Asus Eee Pad Transformer from shutting down in the middle of the installation process. Select the Shared Content Type. Audio supports file formats: [. The Media server name which you set will be displayed. Enter the account and password which you use for your router.

Windows 8 ready motherboards. Eee PC. The serial number is listed directly below the barcode with 12 characters. The serial numbe. How can EeePad TF use the screenshot function? An extra USB port, Ethernet and modem connections, and headphone and mic jacks line the left side.

The keyboard is cramped but is just big enough to touch-type on; the biggest annoyance is the proximity of the Up arrow key and right Shift key; we accidentally moved up a line on several occasions while trying to capitalize a letter. And although we didn't mind the unified, slightly chintzy-feeling touchpad button that you can left- or right-click on, our kid tester found it confusing at first.

So what can you do with this mini notebook? Practically anything you would do with a Windows-powered one. Teens and adults will likely spend the most time in the Internet area, where you can launch the Firefox browser, Wikipedia, Skype for making cheap calls , and the instant messaging program which includes clients for AOL, Google Talk, MSN, and Yahoo. Why waste money on a two-trick pony like the ZipIt 2 Communicator which offers only IMing and MP3 playback when you can get a featherlight PC that does those things and surfs the whole Web, too?

And that's not all the Eee PC can do. Under Learn, for example, you can launch word games like Hangman and math games like Tux of Math Command starring the Linux penguin , which gives flash-card-style math questions the space-shooter treatment. Under the Work menu you'll find quick links to OpenOffice. These programs took more than ten seconds to load the first time but only eight seconds after that, and we had no problem composing a Word document on the Eee PC, saving our work to a memory key and then continuing to work on that file on a Windows laptop.

Asus also includes a file-manager utility, a PDF reader, the Thunderbird e-mail client, and a Notes app. The device played MP3s and WMAs stored on a memory card while we surfed the Web, and the built-in mic performed admirably when making Skype calls.

The Photo Manager took its sweet time loading large image files, however. Getting online with the Eee PC via Wi-Fi was pretty painless; once you set up a profile and enter the encryption key, the notebook will automatically connect to that network the next time you boot up.

Although surfing wasn't quite as zippy as it is on our ThinkPad, it was still plenty fast. The device had no problems handling Web 2. We encountered a screen-resolution issue with the new Yahoo Mail, but we still got it to work.

Overall performance was pretty snappy, even though this machine uses a Celeron processor. Most apps loaded quickly, and the MB of RAM is more than sufficient for an operating system with such little overhead. A mere 4GB of storage space tells you that the Eee PC isn't going to be your primary digital media vault out of the box, but you can easily augment that capacity with an external drive. Plus, that 4GB solid state drive can withstand being dropped by Junior.