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When my PC boots to the X login screen it shuts down. The problem began last week with MS Win which does the same thing!? It gets to Windows login screen and then immediately shuts the computer Off!?...

gee I wonder which program causes the overheat? reminds me of my Samsung phone, I did an update on some of my apps (not the OS) and it started to get hot and ran the battery down quick (maybe in 20...

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And thank you also for your reply!
I know I had a lot of problems with windows 8 and later learned from MS own site that upon upgrading to 8,...

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I was dual booting with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 on my Asus Laptop (I hate it bcs they moved the keyboard etc.etc. but has Intel 2.4 GHz core, 3 GB RAM and 400 GB HDD).
What happened I...

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great thread! I was wondering about the same thing, I have an old MSi laptop which I think still has MS Vista on it. I want to wipe it out and start fresh because HDD's too full to have both...

Thanks a lot sudodus
you are right, wubi won't work in windows 8 or any other windows any more!
in fact it wipes off your last install then gives an error that the setup files are missing from...

I have a few .MTS files which were taken with Sony handycam (I know...but was not mine) and I had a lot of problems playing them in Ubuntu. They are instructional/speeches videos so I needed the...

Thanks to mörgæs and everyone else for this thread.
I dont know if this is the right thread but here's my problem/question:

I wanted to ask about setting up a Partitionless Ubuntu using Wubi on...

Thanks for the reply. I checked the /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup file and copied it as xorg.conf then ran the nVidia configurations as root (it said so) so it copied the backup file as new and I got...

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Wow I cant believe I got in! Heh been out of job for 3 years now so been away from Ubuntu for a long time and I have forgotten many of the commands :( anyway; I have 2 questions (I...

I get the same thing!

I first upgrtaded to 13.04 last night then tried Firefox to watch a TV channel online. There was a problem with missing Silverlight cmpt. So I learned that the Linux version...

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Thank you all very much for your kind replies.
I did it and so I am using it right now. I had a couple of problems like I could not log in, it refused my password n kept looping back to...

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I have been away for a while so before upgrading from ver. 12x to 13x I wanted to ask everyone if they know the differences and if the new 13.04 is stable or the desktop is more flexible...

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I just upgraded to 11.10 (against my better judgment, and cuz it wouldnt leave me alone) and I dont like the looks of it (I hate that useless bar on top, cant do anything with it (no right...

Thanks to each and everyone of you for your kind replies.
good ideas.

I appreciate it. (got to restart the browser, it updated now, yeah...) :)

(and Yes, later I saw the choice of update as...

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I was wondering what you think about Upgrading from 11.04 to the latest (11.10)?. ( I think it said 11.10)
This is an Asus laptop with i5 core (which I hate its keyboard), I am dual...

Can wubi mess up your windows install?

Have you guys ever used Wubi? It is a very small program like 1.4 megs and runs in Windows, sets up latest version of Ubuntu where you tell it to (Like your...

Thanks for this Useful Post!
T-up!:cool:

I thought firefox latest ver was 4.1 the reason is that I like the 3.x a lot better.4.1 seems to have a more plain look but I like my tools in front of me and not having to go search for them.

Did this problem ever get solved?

If not (or if anyone else has similar problem) I found this'

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1749312
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Thanks for the info. Last year I did the auto update (in 10.4, GUI) for the 3rd or 4th time but it crashed my system where Nothing would fix it, I lost all my files and had to do reinstall!
( I...

I dont know if this will help or not? I am using 11.4;

only editable file I saw was here; /etc/default/grub
anyway may be running the update-grub alone (as it's mentioned in file below), would...

Once I had this problem (with older version) but most of the files were not showing up and I could not boot normally so I used fsck -p and it fixed it.
you have to boot in a single user mode /...

Thanks a lot for your replies.

ctrl,alt L works but at the time the screen was locked out and it returned some errors.
I had to go to the terminal (ctrl alt F1) and use pkill to get out:

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as you know in windows you can press/hold the windows key and press L to log off. Is there such a key combination in 11.4?
I logged in as this new user but there were errors and now I am getting a...