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I've just purchased a laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed. However, I don't want to use it right now and I want to replace it with Ubuntu. My question is, if in the future I want Windows 10 back, how do I restore it?

Hi Long shot this but i have an old macbook air, 2008 model, that's been sitting in the cupboard for years, I wiped it to put Linux on it, which is ok, i was just trying it out really, to see what linux was like but i want to ideally put windows 10 on it .... i know it will be slow but its just...

Hi, There was a little updating done a few days ago, a couple of hundred megs, however since then the computer has cut out three times. Does these mean anything? I don't use bluez so will disable that but not sure what these logs are saying? Windows 10 crashed the other day so might not be just...

Hi, I was going to buy another graphics card because my existing one makes this weird hissing noise despite the fact it is fanless and it is irritating me. Anyway, whilst looking around it seems the best silent one I can find on ebay is a radeon HD 6450 1gb which is fanless, however I am...

I had an old ws parked in the garage since 2017 (cus he was giving me lots of BSOD headaches since Win10) and now with lockdown I decided to give it to my daughter to do her schooling in order to save wife's notebook. It is an old machine dating almost (old)10 years with 2 SSDs (from OCZ, long...

Hi, So last night I waste two of my life trying to install Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla which was Ubuntu 20.10. Anyway, the first of install nothing booted properly, the second round it did but had issues and I could not boot up windows, the third round it finally installed and I then had to install a...

Hello, I am used to using Gnome Disks for Linux, that allows me to take a partition, and create an image file of that, and later I can Restore the partition image from the file to the same disk, or to a different disk. I have spent 1-2 hours on Windows research, and I cannot find any application...

Hi, I have Linux Ubuntu instal, latest long term version, anyway, I can access some potographcs from my shard partition which I share as an NTFS betwen Liunux and Windows installation, however, although one program in Linux Geeqie can open a file, when I go to open it with Gimp it does not and...

Hi, I wanted to edit an mp3 encoded recoring in audactiy in Ubuntu however it wont recognise it. I went to Audacity website and it seems to believe it should work. I have also installed win ffmpeg and it already had gstreamer. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hello all! I am using ubuntu currently on my Viewsonic lcd monitor Link Removed and now I want to install windows 10 on this monitor. I need information regarding this that is possible to switch to windows. Don't know whether this monitor is compatible or not with windows.

Hi, I want to use my DVI cable instead of my VGA cable to connect my monitor to my Ubuntu 20.04 setup which has a graphics card that outputs VGA, DVI and HDMI, however upon use of the VGA and HDMI things look fine on the login screen and I can clearly see where to type the password, however...

Some time ago a year or so TOR would take ages to open, literally minutes, after a reinstall when a new version came out of Ubuntu the problem went away even though my Ubuntu was up to date. Now last weekend TOR worked fine and yet after some updates were installed t now no longer works, no...

Hi, I have attached a HDD to my Ubuntu host computer, I am running virtual box with windows xp in it, I would like to get XPto view the connected HDD as a HD and not tjust a shared folder, is there any way I can do this? Thanks advance.

Hi, As I have been getting on well with my installation of Linux Ubtuntu 20.04 on a SSD I installed it to a few months back, I decided to delete the partition I was using it from on a HDD and extend the partition for saved data to utilised the entire HDD. However rather than simply extend the...

Hi, Does anyone know if I installed ubuntu 20.04 onto a usb device with the above intention, can I install a virtual box and use win xp in that? It wold need to run a usb device used to plug into the car for mechanical diagnostic purposes. Link Removed

Hi, Thunar file manager on Ubuntu 20.04 shows no time frame where you list files in any given folder, is there a way to make it show this or is there a better file manager I could use that does? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I just installed virtual box from the ubuntu repository as part of the snap store selection however when I go to open up an old saved .vdi virtual box file it won't let me select it, its as if it wont recognise that file type in the directory in which it is stored, has VB changed in the...

I tried using Ubuntu with a dual boot on my lower end system and found out I'm too stupid for it. I need to remove the partition it's in, but I'm not sure which one it is.

Hi, I have linux ubuntu, the 20.04 version, anyway, I want to be able to use screen lock as a safety feature for when I leave the computer so it locks itself and have the ability to shut the computer down properly using the power button saving me the effort of turning the monitor on, putting in...

Hello. I use a Lenovo laptop where I had W10 and Ubuntu on different partitions. It would let me choose between W10 and Linux upon startup and would boot into Linux by default. After a long update last night, my PC boots directly into Windows (no more bootloader screen). I still see the 60GB...