First thanks Bill & sbwhiteman for your replies. It turns out it is only a router problem as I suspected as the Comcast guy last night knew...
Okay quick update: After I sent post above I then reconnected router and this time all the lights seemed to work correctly(unlike any of the...
Hi, I am in huge mess with Comcast and am looking for help. This is the situation; I have been a comcast customer for years and a little over a...
I did not phrase it correctly but I meant is it safe to run live linux usb before I have formatted/erased XP? I thought it would be okay as...
Thanks for the replies but they have now raised further questions. I have only installed linux(lubuntu) once before and it was super easy and I...
Hi, I am buying a cheap used desktop on craigslist and was wondering about cleaning it up from any viruses/malware or even any illegal content...
Thanks for the reply and I thought the extra ram would likely matter a lot but just was not sure. I am not expecting miracles but just hoping it...
Hi, I have a 10 year old Toshiba Satellite A105-S1014 with only 512k ram. It has been super reliable until I stopped using it almost completely...
Thanks Brian as I used diskpart as you suggested and the usb is now fine.
It worked! I followed your instructions exactly and the laptop is back. Thank you as I really appreciate it. Not to push my luck but the usb...
Thanks Alex for your help with this as I tried the latest version of CP and it worked exactly as you said and I do have extensions now installed....
Hi, I have been trying various live linux usb's and yesterday I tried running Cloudready by Neverware which is a free version of ChromeOS....
Did you install those extensions to CP from the Chrome store in the same way as when using installed Chrome? As I seem to get message that my cp...
My ethernet adapter seems to be the Intel 82552. Is there any reason that would not be recognized? I have tried Xubuntu also live and same issue...
Well I don't care if the updater/installer is just checking for updates to Chrome but I was not sure if that is the mechanism used to send back...
I'm not sure of the ethernet nic and I am at work so will have to post it tomorrow. But I also was wondering do all the offshoots of Ubuntu have...
Hello, I have always used Chrome Portable instead of Chrome but I have it on the hard drive itself so not running off USB and the reason I used...
I'm still in the process of exploring this and have tried several live usb's including Lubuntu, Puppy, Porteus but none of the live versions I...
For those that have mentioned using vpn's with vm's are the vpn's you use paid versions? And don't you still then have to trust the vpn provider?
PaleDark that is hard to say as I know "super fast" is very subjective. But I was just trying to get a sense of what would be needed to achieve...
Minimalist does ublock origin block 3rd party frames & scripts by default or does it have to be set up that way? And do you only recommend ublock...
Thanks for the replies and interesting answers as not what I expected so I am glad I asked. But to give more information my best computer is...
First off, do most of you feel you have super fast web surfing now? I know "super fast" is subjective but I mean do sites fully load nearly...
Hi, I am considering getting a used IBM Lenovo Thinkcentre 8808 pc to try linux. It is core duo 1.86ghz with 3gig ram and 80gig hard drive. It...
Hi, over the weekend I tried Porteus Live USB with the copy to RAM option. Very impressed as I did it on the "best" laptop I have which is only a...
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