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I have just installed neverware/chrome os on a Dell Inspiron mini 10, originally came out with Windows XP. It has an Intel Atom 1.6 CPU. The only thing that doesn't work is the keyboard shortcut to...

Thanks. Just open the Profile Manager in the terminal 'firefox --profilemanager', make a new profile. The manager will open when the shortcut is selected and you can select the one you want to open....

My main OS is Linux Mint. I have Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, & Pale Moon browsers.
I have the Firefox set up with a VPM & Bookmarks for Australia. The rest have no VPM's. I like Firefox because the...

I have a website with Open Host. No problems. Google Chrome shows it as 'Not secure', which is fair enough. There are no forms, or confidential material on it so doesn't need to be secure. Only...

I upgraded Mint Cinnamon v18.3 to Mint xfce v20. The Dell Inspiron 17 is multi-booted with W10 & FatDog 64. There is no sound from the ear phone plug when on Mint 20. There is sound on the speakers....

The partition with the 'savefile' is the only one, and contains the whole OS. It writes to the file Ok when you shut it down, but for some reason will not read it when booted. If installed to a...

I have been trying to get FatDog 64 to read its save-file on a mmcblk0 drive.
When installed to a conventional SDA drive there is no problem.
When installed to a mmcblk0 drive it can not find the...

Unfortunately she deleted it, but she had to call in someone to sort it out. Someone had installed Norton Security which was dead, also Defender (W10) wasn't working either. Of course its all my...

If you have a Gmail account, why are you using Thunderbird? Much better to do your email on google. Files don't get to your computer unless you download them. Especially as you are using W7. Google...

I sent a PDF document as an attachment to a gmail to an address in London. The PDF file was 570 kB in size. When the file was received it had grown to 6 MB. The file still worked, but was difficult...

The most common, and compatible one is Libre Office which is available in most versions of Linux, and Windows.
My favourite is Softmaker Free Office 2018, also available for Linux, and Windows.
I...

The words 'dementia' and 'glasses' reminds me of the time when I was trying to find my glasses, and my son asked me what I was doing. I replied "looking for my glasses". he replied "you'r wearing...

Linux has no problems with any of the drives, nothing to report.
The problem no longer exists. I have removed Windows 10, and installed it in VMWare hosted by Cinnamon 18.3 . Works a treat, and no...

I feel like a bit of an idiot! Turns out that in the past "hardware acceleration" was disabled by default, and now it is enabled. With "hardware acceleration" off everything is normal. With it on the...

The folders, and files in Sda1 are displayed in the Windows file manager, but can not be copied, or opened. They are normal in Linux. Sda2 is normal on both Os's. The settings are identical on both...

I have a 1TB USB hard drive which I use on Linux & Windows 10. Every time I plug it in to W10 it notifies me that it needs to be scanned. If I let it do a scan it can find nothing wrong. Linux never...

A Laptop with two drives. The system drive a Samsung SSD M2. It has Linux Mint & Windows 10 Pro on it.
The data drive is 1TB with two NTFS partitions which are shared by both systems. Recently Sda1...

I agree with you about Mint 20. It has many problems, incompatible with a lot of the software, software that used to be free has been 'upgraded' and requires a license, the older versions will not...

So far as the sound goes, I will remove the back & fix the plug, probably a bad connection, or an insect or something. It works sometimes, is at the moment.
I think Mint 18.3 is the best, Mint 20 is...

I have a few problems with the above laptop running Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.3 & Windows 10 Pro 2040.


1] The earphone socket is damaged, so I am using a 'creative' USB sound card. Works well on...

I have never been able to get Virtualbox, in Linux (Mint), to support USB, or share a drive partition. Extension tools have been installed.
Vmware does both, but is a pig to install. Does anyone...

I have installed Slimjet, and think its very good. Had to install "IdeaNova Drm Extension" before it would work on TVNZ. Works well on 7Plus, and Channel 9.

The saga continues. I replaced Mint Cinnamon 18.3 with a Macrium Image made about two months ago. Everything was fine until I did an update last night. I thought it would be Ok. Now both Chrome &...

I use Macrium Reflex 7 free because it has no problems with multibooting, windows, linux, anything on the drive. Also you can backup a single partition, also able to mount the image as a virtual...

Right click on the drive in the file manager, and select 'eject'
or
Log out, then log in again.