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What about occurence Nr. 3 and Nr. 4 ?

If it were needed to install a new browser and an email prtogramme, what lesser known alternatives in Mint are there realistically?

Thanks for the reply. You may recall I said FF has repeatedly been hijacked on this box . It runs Mint 19.1 in Mate and is updated almost imediately whenever updates are out. The symptoms? Occurence1: There was Mail demanding ransom, at another occaision (occurence2) with a Mint box that had been se...

Hi Folks, My Firefox browser and my Thunderbird mail has been hacked or hijacked multiple times. My Thunderbird addressbook has also been compromised a few times while they were at it. Generally, I use a non-HTML-only mail client for everyday work, but thats not the solution because some mail will o...

Thanks Karlchen!

For others with the same problem:
I did not see "forced PAE" on the boot menu during the countdown to autoboot.
If ENTER is pushed during the boot countdown, "forced PAE" is shown and can be chosen.

I have an old IBM T41 laptop, and tried to install 32bit Mint Mate.
Upon beginning to boot from DVD it stops and shows an error message
"Warning PAE disabled. use parameter "forcepae" to enable. Unable to boot please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU"

Question: What should I do?

Solved! Thanks everybody!

On an older laptop with a wearing-out HD drive there is an old version of Mint. I want to replace that HD by a new SSD and install a recent Mint version in the process.

Question: Is there an easy way of finding out if the existing Mint installation is 32 or 64 bit?

You my want to see this thread about updating a "lost" bootloader after installing Windows:

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=304618

Thank you all, especially decrepit. Problem solved. How I installed Windows whithout killing Mint: 1) I had an installation with Mint only, and added a SSD for installing Windows later. 2) The SSD's with Mint were disconnected, and Windows was installed on the new SSD 3) After Windows was installed,...

Thank you all!
After some days the issue has not repeated.

Thank you very much, sarge816!
Will try doing that as soon as I get my new SSD.

You may want to look at the " Firefox tweak thread" if you are concerned about browser highjacking.

Thanks Pierre and Pjotr, I really appreciate your words of wisdom! However I would like to put the Windoze stuff on a seperate SDD. If I temporarily disconnected sda and sdb (my current Linux installation), and installed Windoze on a brand new drive to be reconnected as sdc later on, could a working...

That windows program I need to install is in 32bit, another program I really should install is a tax program which only runs in 64bit. Therefore I would rather like to add a new SSD and put windows plus those programs on that, and not mess with existing installation more than absolutely necessary. H...

That program is on seven DVD's without VMware.
In that case would a seperate Windoze installation make better sense? In the end it would be a dual boot system, but with Windoze installed last.

Thanks Pjotr, but the program I need to get working runs inside Windoze in a virtual machine running on XP...
I think Mint with VM to run Windoze, then another VM inside Windows running XP, then the actual blasted program I need running within that VM is just a bit too much.

Hi folks, I am a long time Mint user, but finally I must install Windoze to run some stupid program I need for my job. I am wondering how to go about it best, and would appreciate any hints! I do not want to kill the Mint installation in the process! What I have now: I have a drive sda with a Mint p...

On my Toshiba netbook, the touchpad seems to do anything it wants but not what I want, no matter what OS is running.
Dunno if your problem here is touchpad related, but I always take a tiny mouse with me.

Sorry for the delay, was on assignment for a few days. This is what happens: helmut@helmut-OptiPlex-760:~$ systool -vm rt61pci Module = "rt61pci" Attributes: coresize = "36864" initsize = "0" initstate = "live" refcnt = "0" srcversion = "EE4C80005E085EB2443085F" taint = "" uevent = <store method onl...

I had done what you suggested already, but only wanted to know more. I will be seeing how the system works. Thanks a lot! just for info: modinfo rt61pci filename: /lib/modules/5.0.0-27-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko license: GPL firmware: rt2661.bin firmware: rt2561s.bi...