Dane, The Asus Update in my experience is at least sort of accessible. I have to look around with mouse keys some and click to get focus. I must say, though, that I have not done much with it, though. I found the registration program to not be accessible, which was truly ironic, since it seemed to mostly get me to a web site that was completely accessible. There is another program called EE Docking or something like that which does not appear to be accessible or maybe I don't know what to expect from it. I thought it might have to do with docking stations and disabled it, but it apparently handles connecting and disconnecting many devices and disabling it caused me a ton of trouble. There is also a "Super Hybrid Power Engine" or something like that which appears not to be accessible that adjusts performance characteristics for specific kinds of uses using the FN key and the SPACE bar. It could be one can do more with this utility than I have, but it seems as though it just adjusts settings that you can get at from the Power Management settings.
Another hassle is that if you want to install larger memory, you have to turn something called "Boot Booster" off and this can only be done from a BIOS-Like setup screen. There are other options there, too, such as backing up the recovery partition to a 16GB flash drive, and of course these are not accessible. Unfortunately, I don't know that there is a netbook that doesn't have some utilities that are not accessible. Also, I have not explored the ASUS site to see if there is any way around this. However, it appears to me that there update procedure works all right and I guess that was the original question. One more thing I wasted a lot of time on is language setting. When I had to do a recover, I apparently accidently or by default chose German as the language. Well, I understand a little German so no problem, right? I just figured I'd get through the setup process and change the language back to English. I spent a good bit of time trying to change the language, comparing different Windows 7 machines and such, only to find out that you cannot change the language after it has been selected on Windows Starter. Other than that, I really have not had any complaints about Windows Starter, though, and that one was my fault. I know you are the sort of person who does a good job of investigating. Please let me know if you happen to find out anything that might be of interest. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:48:39 +1100, Dane Trethowan wrote: >Thanks everyone for their valuable information and tips on installing WE onto >my Asus Netbook. >Now a second thing I was warned about on Twitter and it was suggested I check >to see that the Asus Netbook update utility was accessible and - if not - was their a way round the accessibility issues, do any of you have any thoughts or opinions on this? >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to >GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
