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Wow ! Hi and big thanks to dos2unix (I love your name), and to poorguy. Wiz and atanere; it's been too long, comrades. I appreciate your advice, even though I don't have time to read through it all carefully today :( I will let you know what success I have in the next couple of days. Big love !

After difficulty burning a Linux cd I gave in and ordered a ready made one from/for Linux Lite

Grr... the 1st seemingly obligatory Xmas meal of 2018 has dragged me away from my Linux. Suppose this grinch should be glad for the invite

Hi poorguy and I am grateful for the care you have taken over your response. I might well check out your links and work out how to create a bootable DVD if I decide to switch to a distro other than Ubuntu, for which I already have the abovementioned USB. QUOTE="poorguy, post: 61962, member...

Thanks, Hansel. This is my most probable course of action. Being low on time and knowledge, I tend to try and keep things simple, though I will give the ideas lower down this thread an inspection too. Bless up ! :-)

Hello all, I am strongly considering installing a Linux operating system on my laptop, a Hewlett Packard nc-6220 netbook. It already has an operating system, if Micros*** Windows XP is still classed as "operating"; ie. It is no longer capable of updating the version of the Chrome browser it...

Good news : I now have my laptop working again. Bad news : it's only running Windows XP now.

Hello again, good people of the Linux persuasion. atanere, I have had replying to your post second on my to-do list for a week, which must say something dire about my time management, or at least about the amount of time I spend waiting for this phone I am using to co-operate. The hard drive...

Crikey, there is so much information there, it's as though everyone's put their lives on hold to help little ol me fix my laptop ! I really feel most privileged and wish I could return the favour, but alas, all I could teach you is how to mess your computers up. I am sometimes called upon to...

Thank you atanere. I will try restoring the system defaults, though I don't know anything about BIOS and if that doesn't work I will get a RAM upgrade. Til then I won't pester you any more about this sickly machine :-)

Hello to all in the best forum board in webworld. I require a bit of help because since attempting to upgradu from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04.1 I can't boot up my laptop at all. I made the upgrade through the suggestion window on the automatic Software Manager program and it hasn't...

Dear atanere and Wizard, From past exchanges, atanere became aware of how limited my competence with Linux (and computers in general) was, and I can tell you it hasn't increased much since then. I had been looking into switching distros to Linux Mint, and I was getting nowhere fast working...

Thanks, both of you, for giving this your time and attention. Chris, I had wondered what "Eye of GNOME" was, and your investigative skills in ascertaining how many files were in that folder would be worthy of Columbo. However, enlarging the photos doesn't make them visible. Atanere, the answer...

Hi ! Does anyone know why my Image Viewer program won't display jpeg files? Much of the time, only a blank screen is shown, although other times it works normally. Above is a screenshot taken from the program when it is misbehaving: I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a HP-Compaq NC-6220 Any...

Dear Wizard, I am sorry I haven't checked back here sooner. I am so slack over reading email that once the Linux Forum alerts've been sitting in my inbox for a while I get more and more anxious about opening them and checking back on my threads, in case I find a reply telling off for not...

Hi wizardfromoz, and thank you for the cyber-sesame-street lesson about the X. Hi Atanere; hoping likewise that you and your missus are well and that she isn't testing out too many of her inky inventions on you. Your advice about the futility of uninstalling software packages has forced some...