Suprising performance boast on EeePC

The shitty XP system on my Asus EeePC 900 was slow to a point that I couldn't take it anymore. So a few days ago I wipe the whole thing up and installed Windows 7 Ultimate edition. Notice that I didn't put any other software in it expect the plain jane Windows 7. The result? The machine is now totally responsive. This is pretty amazing consider that my EeePC only has 1Gb of memory in it. As a download and file server machine, I think it's enough for the EeePC to keep me happy for a while.