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  1. Yes, sorry I am using KDE. I will add that line and see what happens this weekend, which is when I'm usually gone. Thank you New2MDK
  2. It seems that if my PC is turned off for a night or so, usually only when I'm not around, then I do boot up the next day or when I return, the boot process is fine. Then it take 1-5 minutes for the login prompt to appear. Then, after I sign in, it takes another few minutes for the desktop to appear and usually signs in at around 80%, not having restored everything (such as the taskbar, start menu. Maybe after 5 or so minutes that stuff will appear, but from that point, everything runs like junk. So I reboot it, then there is absolutely no problem. I never shut down my PC unless I know I'll be gone for a day or two or longer. Does anyone know how to avoid this, other than just not shutting down. Thank you, New2MDK
  3. Please close this out. It's telling me, what I'm trying to install is installed. Be that as it may, I have no clue of the Enable and Config directions. So for me case closed, so this can be closed. Thank you New2MDK
  4. Hello, I'm trying/wanting to install 'Java Runtime Environment' in Mandrake 10.1. The instructions it gives are very easy to follow. Then it has a link to Enable and Configure, and the only options are for Mozilla 1.2, netscape 6 and later or Mozilla 1.4 and later. I know Firefox is Mozilla, but 1.2 or 1.4 or does it not matter? In case anyone is curious to what I'm talking about, you can see here Instructions Linux JRE Thanks in advance NEW2MDK
  5. New2MDK

    .tgz [solved]

    Thanks guys, I should of know how obvious that was, sorry
  6. New2MDK

    .tgz [solved]

    Are .tgz files installed as per the FAQs for installing .tar.gz files or is this a new routine I need to learn? thank you
  7. Thank you, I was able to delete all, thanks for your suggestion.
  8. The thing is adamw, when I originally installed firefox the only option I had was to double click the icon 'FIREFOX-INSTALLER', apparently that is incorrect. In the FAQs I seen all that process was suppose to happen, however, I wasn't able to perform that. However, it still installed and I haven't had any problems using it. I want to uninstall it only to reinstall it , as I'm trying to become more proficient using CLI. So, did I mess things up by installing it that way? Making it impossible to uninstall? please advise, Thank you
  9. After reading FAQs, I learned how to install rpm's and .tar.gz through CLI, but there was nothing about how to uninstall. If I wanted to uninstall an RPM, I could remove it with rpmdrake. How would I remove a .tar.gz. I googled it, and the explanation I got is not meant for a newbies eye's Thank you for any input, take care New2MDK
  10. Thank you anyways Marked the tread Solved - Artificial Intelligence
  11. I'm pretty certain I hit DEL not ESC. But what would of even prompted that to happen? Thanks
  12. I was kicking much butt while playing LBreakout2, all of a sudden the game window disappeared and I was looking at my desktop. Everything including the mouse was froze. So I went to reboot and instinctivly I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, thinking I was in Windows (force of habit). Then my mouse pointer turned into a skull and bones. Either I have a version of Mandrake 10.1 that accepts virus' or I'm seeing things. Does anyone know which it is? And if so is there anything further, in the way of security, I should be doing? Thank you New2MDK
  13. After doing the 'free' RAM wasn't the problem, and 'top' showed no hogs. But then again, I'm using gnome instead, so I assume KDE was the hog. This morning when I booted up, I noticed I had no taskbar. Can that be accessed through CLI, or any other way? Thank you all very much
  14. Since I had no clue what was going on and my system was running like crap, I decided to do a clean install using GNOME. During installation, I was able to pick and choose what services started at boot. Most were obvious, but several I wasn't sure of so I left them at the default to run. Bluetooth, crond, dm, fam, hotplug, keytable, kheader, mailman, messagebus, ntpd, rawdevices, xfs and xinetd. Are those best running? I'm not running any servers at all. finally, I booted up for the first time on this install and after login I got the following: Could not look up internet address for gianluca. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding gianluca to the file /etc/hosts. LOG IN ANYWAY TRY AGAIN so I logged in anyway. Everything seems fine, I haven't done anything. Although I've done nothing, I can honestly tell you, gnome seems to run better than KDE. If you could please, assist me with those serviices from above. I guess I need to update before anything anyway with easy_urpmi, do you suggest any other updating? Thanks again, this board has been very patient and helpful, thank you NEW2MDK
  15. I have no idea what is going on. I installed Mandrake 10.1, mainly to learn the command line and to have a more smooth running/stable environment. I only use Internet, email, OpenOffice, CD Burning (although K3B is giving me issues), finances and as I said I want to learn more of the command lline. But the main reason was, to hopefully scrap M$ eventually altogether. As of Now, I feel like I never left Windows. I don't know if it's KDE itself, or just not enough RAM. I use 256 which I know isnt a lot, but it ran XP Pro pretty darn well. I was told Linux handles memory much much better. I have yet to see that. If anyone has any ideas/pointers to why I'm having this problem, please advise me. I use a P3 930, 256RAM, 2 20GIG hard drives. I don't want to rely on M$ anymore, please help me. Let me know if you think a different distro might work better, please Thank you, NEW2MDK
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