Thank you Pavel for your answer. It's been a year now and these are some of the issues of using Visual Studio on a netbook: - It's a great tool for fast implementations of concepts I'm seing in my courses. - The resolution it's not the best for projects that require you to use all the VS panels. Most of the time I kept all the panels hidden. - 2GB and Windows XP Professional SP3 seems to do the trick. I didn't tried the Windows 7 experience. I don't need it in this machine. Greetings, JuanD