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Two questions:
First, I am trying to install Ubuntu on my laptop. I have a 500-gig drive with a 150-gig partition that I want to use for Ubuntu. The other 350-gigs is for Windows 7, already installed. I do want to keep W7, I want to dual-boot. Do I choose to "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7" or "Something else". I'm assuming "Something else" but a walk-through would be nice.
Oh, and I know about dsixda's kitchen and jot kitchen, any suggestions or recommendations?
i hope this helps.
http://www.howtogeek.com/65974/how-...wsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=140611
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i hope this helps.
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I'm sure that will help once I get past the installation phase, which is where i am stuck, thanks though
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Have you read Ubuntu's home page? That's where I got information when I installed on my system.
You realize that you can't run both simultaneously if set up to dual boot? I only mention this because most new Linux users don't know this. Linux isn't a program, but an operating system, like Windows.
If you knew this, cool & sorry if I insulted your intelligence. Never know the level of someone else's experience & hate to assume.
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If I remember right you have to install along side of windows for dual boot. Also you do not need to pre partition your hdd. All the options will be there for you to allocate the space you want.
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I run my copy of ubuntu in san oracle virtual environment.
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I'm aware that Ubuntu is an OS, I want to run it in a completely separate from Windows, thanks though Road_Dog, covering all the bases. I have yet to install it, THREESTRIPEBAND, so I guess I will boot up Windows and delete that partition, didn't know that Linux was actually that easy to install I know about Wubi and Oracle virtual machines, thanks Khilbron, but I want to run it as its own OS.
Thanks for the help, I will hit thanks when I get out the laptop!
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tropicalbrit said:
I'm aware that Ubuntu is an OS, I want to run it in a completely separate from Windows, thanks though Road_Dog, covering all the bases. I have yet to install it, THREESTRIPEBAND, so I guess I will boot up Windows and delete that partition, didn't know that Linux was actually that easy to install I know about Wubi and Oracle virtual machines, thanks Khilbron, but I want to run it as its own OS.
Thanks for the help, I will hit thanks when I get out the laptop!
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No worries and good luck.
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Yes I know xp sucks arse.... unforturnetly I have to deal with it...
Anyways how would I go about getting some freed up ram or memory because I need to clear out some junk and rather not take a shot in the dark and end something dangerous. So any suggestions other tan get windows 7 will be greatly appreciated I know disk cleanup and defreagment are useful but is there anything else?
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Post on a windows xp forum...
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Post on a windows xp forum...
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That's pretty messed up...
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I haven't used XP for a while (other than at work, where I am not responsible) but, I think Start -> run -> msconfig.msc might help you out. You can disable anything you want during startup. You can probably also tell what you are disabling because it will tell you the path to the executable. After turning a bunch of stuff off, reboot and see where you are at.
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That's pretty messed up...
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Thank you I was going to say it but I hopedi wasn't in the wrong I was really just seeing if people in my backyard knew how to trim some trees so to speak
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I haven't used XP for a while (other than at work, where I am not responsible) but, I think Start -> run -> msconfig.msc might help you out. You can disable anything you want during startup. You can probably also tell what you are disabling because it will tell you the path to the executable. After turning a bunch of stuff off, reboot and see where you are at.
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Do you think adding to the virtual memory heap would help I only have a gig of ram and 2 gb of vm so far wuld more be helpful? I have a lot of hard drive storage something like 160 or so, anyways ill look at the processes
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Do you think adding to the virtual memory heap would help I only have a gig of ram and 2 gb of vm so far wuld more be helpful? I have a lot of hard drive storage something like 160 or so, anyways ill look at the processes
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I am sure you already know this, but virtual memory is much, much slower than hardware RAM. That said, increasing virtual memory probably won't speed up your system, but will allow for additional multitasking (running more programs). Windows does a pretty good job at managing the virtual memory and keeping the more accessed information in real memory.
In short, I don't believe that increasing your virtual memory will make much of a difference. 2GB should be plenty. Additionally, if you are using a 32-bit version, Windows can not access more than 4GB of RAM (including video RAM, and hardware RAM) and that limitation may include virtual memory. Typically, 3GB is about all you can use with a 32-bit OS.
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Thanks I know a ton about my phone but hardly anything about my computer its odd. Anyways ill look into that msconfig and let you know what I come up with I was hoping for something similar to a task manager/memory cleaner here on android
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Biggoron said:
Thanks I know a ton about my phone but hardly anything about my computer its odd. Anyways ill look into that msconfig and let you know what I come up with I was hoping for something similar to a task manager/memory cleaner here on android
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The task manager... right click on start bar (not on a button or application) and start taskmanager. All applications have an associated process but not all processes have associated applications (at least applications with a GUI). From the process list, which will have what you want to get rid of, you will probably have to google each process name to determine what it is and how to get rid of it and if it is safe to do so. When I do a fresh XP install with anti virus and a minimal application set, I have somewhere around 40 total processes.
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The task manager... right click on start bar (not on a button or application) and start taskmanager. All applications have an associated process but not all processes have associated applications (at least applications with a GUI). From the process list, which will have what you want to get rid of, you will probably have to google each process name to determine what it is and how to get rid of it and if it is safe to do so. When I do a fresh XP install with anti virus and a minimal application set, I have somewhere around 40 total processes.
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Got about 52.... not bad I guess but is this bad?
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Biggoron said:
Got about 52.... not bad I guess but is this bad?
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That looks pretty good. One thing to remember is that "cached" physical memory is almost free memory. The operating system has files and other data that is cached in RAM for quick access but can easily be dumped to make room for new information.
So, now the question is, what is the problem/symptoms that you are trying to solve?
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tinslwc said:
I haven't used XP for a while (other than at work, where I am not responsible) but, I think Start -> run -> msconfig.msc might help you out. You can disable anything you want during startup. You can probably also tell what you are disabling because it will tell you the path to the executable. After turning a bunch of stuff off, reboot and see where you are at.
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Msconfig is really meant as more of a trouble shooting tool. It's not proper to use it as a maintenance tool. If there's anything that you want to disable at startup you really ought to handle it in that particular programs options. Or consoder uninstalling tje program entirely.
Better than the stock windows defragment is a program called defraggler.
Also, you might try a windows XP forum. I think they would be better help.
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tinslwc said:
That looks pretty good. One thing to remember is that "cached" physical memory is almost free memory. The operating system has files and other data that is cached in RAM for quick access but can easily be dumped to make room for new information.
So, now the question is, what is the problem/symptoms that you are trying to solve?
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Well according to y'all its not my memory I guess I'm running the cpu more than it can handle its a guitar program in basic terms it turns my computer into an amplifier if you need to know its POD Farm 2 and when I try to add a "dual" which is like using two different amp setups it chops the sounds and won't work correctly and was thinking it was my memory not being able to free up the needed ram but I guess my lil 1.3ghz cpu isn't cutting it
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Xp has been very solid. Upgrade your hardware and do a clean install of xp. I'm running 7 on an older hp laptop and its been awesome.
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I'm not familiar with that program, but I would lean toward it not being your ram. You say that's a 1.3ghz. How many cores?
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b16flybye said:
Xp has been very solid. Upgrade your hardware and do a clean install of xp. I'm running 7 on an older hp laptop and its been awesome.
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+1
There's 'natural' fragmentation of files that happens over time that a defrag'er can't always fix. A clean install is kind of like the ultimate defrag'er in that sense.
p.s. sorry about the double post.
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NawtyB78 said:
I'm not familiar with that program, but I would lean toward it not being your ram. You say that's a 1.3ghz. How many cores?
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Its a single I'm sure but ill let you when I find out...
I'm assuming its a single since it doesn't say dual or quad
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i've used this for a basis of streamlining the programs and processes that run on all my windows based pc's (i'm a sys admin for about 300+ pc's as well as my main gaming pc at home)
http://www.blackviper.com/category/guides/windows-xp/
The site used to have just a whole long list that you had to manually go and disable or set to manual yourself, now they've made it easier..
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If u look at some prior threads, he also helped u out!
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Since I had such good results last time I posted about a pc I was wondering something else.
My mother uses her pc for work and it requires certain system files that work like a network or a passage to her works servers. Something in system32...idk anyways... I was wondering if it were possible to image her pc and flash it onto the new pc I'm going to be getting. If not She really just needs xp on it and needs internet explorer 6 and her word 2003 it has a lot of auto corrections/ shortcuts in it. The system files can be put on it by her tech support. Basically she needs xp on her new pc with her internet explorer 6 and word. What would be the easiest way to do so?
I know I could find internet explorer 6 somewhere.
Also for the word I could transfer the auto corrections to the newest word 2010 but I hear it has to be done for each auto correction and she has upwards of 500 hundred.
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I've been curious about this for quite some time now. Our phone has 768mb of total ram space. I've noticed AOSP roms allow 602mb to be used and Sense gives 573mb. Is it possible to substitute system memory for ram enabling more free ram for our device?
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eriknors said:
I've been curious about this for quite some time now. Our phone has 768mb of total ram space. I've noticed AOSP roms allow 602mb to be used and Sense gives 573mb. Is it possible to substitute system memory for ram enabling more free ram for our device?
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Substitute system memory for ram? You mean like a pagefile on windoze? Or just freeing up more ram? Not really following what you mean.
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Ok I know "x" amount of ram is required to run a rom. What I wanna know is can any of that be transferred into say the system memory so that instead of having only 573mb of 768mb we could have something like say 625mb of our 768mb? I guess I should of clarified earlier.
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eriknors said:
Ok I know "x" amount of ram is required to run a rom. What I wanna know is can any of that be transferred into say the system memory so that instead of having only 573mb of 768mb we could have something like say 625mb of our 768mb? I guess I should of clarified earlier.
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Like for example, virtual memory in windows, it uses the hard drive to hold running processes, though it may be slower....it works....sort of lol
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Triscuit said:
Like for example, virtual memory in windows, it uses the hard drive to hold running processes, though it may be slower....it works....sort of lol
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Yes like vm in windows. So it wouldn't speed up our phones if this was done? That is what I was trying to accomplish by all of this in the first place. I figured if I was able to make the RAM larger in size overall that would in turn allow bigger apps to run smoother. I know there's a lot more at play like processor speed and kernel but its just a thought
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Yes like vm in windows. So it wouldn't speed up our phones if this was done? That is what I was trying to accomplish by all of this in the first place. I figured if I was able to make the RAM larger in size overall that would in turn allow bigger apps to run smoother. I know there's a lot more at play like processor speed and kernel but its just a thought
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I'm not saying it will run slower, I don't have the knowledge to tell you if it would improve things or not. Just making it easier to understand
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Haven't really looked at it, but it depends on whether we use up all the RAM often, and I don't think we do.
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I think NO.. we can only adjust CPU frequency though
My knowledge of linux is very limited, but I think that you are thinking of it too much like Windows. In Windows more free ram means better performance. That is because Windows doesn't kill processes that aren't being used when ram is needed, instead it uses vm to allow the program to run.Android will kill processes that aren't in use if additional ram is needed so vm is not necessary. This means that performance isn't really effected by free ram.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
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cstone1991 said:
My knowledge of linux is very limited, but I think that you are thinking of it too much like Windows. In Windows more free ram means better performance. That is because Windows doesn't kill processes that aren't being used when ram is needed, instead it uses vm to allow the program to run.Android will kill processes that aren't in use if additional ram is needed so vm is not necessary. This means that performance isn't really effected by free ram.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
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I also thought the other way before. But after some googling I also found that linux is something like that.
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cstone1991 said:
My knowledge of linux is very limited, but I think that you are thinking of it too much like Windows. In Windows more free ram means better performance. That is because Windows doesn't kill processes that aren't being used when ram is needed, instead it uses vm to allow the program to run.Android will kill processes that aren't in use if additional ram is needed so vm is not necessary. This means that performance isn't really effected by free ram.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
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After a crash course in Linux over the past couple days I've learned that u r right my friend. I guess I was to caught up in thinking it was like windows.
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After a crash course in Linux over the past couple days I've learned that u r right my friend. I guess I was to caught up in thinking it was like windows.
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No worries. I think most people here think the same way because most of us use Windows. I wouldn't have known differently if I hadn't read it previously on here. That's the same reason why task killers are bad.
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I'm in love with Linux 2 home computers run it and my laptop duel boots Ubuntu and windows 7. Great combo. Never owned a Mac probably never will. Also haven't messed with cron ( is that right) in Linux/android) but hear good things.
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Android puts background processes that arent running in the foreground in cache memory, that way it's not eating up ram like if it was still running but since its in the cache, if you open the program though it will still come up quickly since it is cached, only certain programs that are frequently used are like that though...
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As the title says, how can I save and access files to and from the 3 g USB port?
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With a USB drive plugged in and 3G enabled, file transfer should be working.
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With a USB drive plugged in and 3G enabled, file transfer should be working.
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Nope. Only read only. Could it be the app?
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Could be the app.
I've used the default filer app and Total Commander successfully.
Also I plugged a digital camera into the 3G port and opened Gallery and was invited to copy all the discovered photos over.
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Check what file system you are using. If it is NTFS - then an app might be needed to remount ext_storage as writeable, not sure, but check google play.
Might be the filesystem of the USB stick. I had 32gb stick in NTFS format, and it worked read only. After formatting to fat32 I could write to it.
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julle131 said:
Might be the filesystem of the USB stick. I had 32gb stick in NTFS format, and it worked read only. After formatting to fat32 I could write to it.
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Yeah The linux kernel only has support for ReadOnly NTFS by default, If you want to keep the filesystem as NTFS you need to use NTFS-3G which has Read/Write support, Although I've never fully trusted Linux's NTFS functionality it just feels a little flakey to me, the best thing to do is uninstall windows reformat all your NTFS Drives as ext4 and use Linux LOL. Then you wouldn't have this problem. Failing that there's a guide knocking around XDA about NTFS-3G it'll be buried deep in a forum somewhere.
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Yeah The linux kernel only has support for ReadOnly NTFS by default, If you want to keep the filesystem as NTFS you need to use NTFS-3G which has Read/Write support, Although I've never fully trusted Linux's NTFS functionality it just feels a little flakey to me, the best thing to do is uninstall windows reformat all your NTFS Drives as ext4 and use Linux LOL. Then you wouldn't have this problem. Failing that there's a guide knocking around XDA about NTFS-3G it'll be buried deep in a forum somewhere.
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Just pop it in the computer and do a fat format? Thanks everyone.
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steve adams said:
Just pop it in the computer and do a fat format? Thanks everyone.
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Yes.
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I've used also ext2 successfully on ICS ROM. This allowed me to write files larger than 4GB on to my SDXC card.
Iam a owner of a Samsung Note 4 ... Iam new born here... and my problem its I don't want to root ( on this time ) the cell....so I need to know if exist any way to : read and write a External SdCard.. because I cant do this...
please any ??
I don't understand why you can't. Lollipop allows it (you have to choose sd card directory for the app in question), at least on an app-by-app basis.
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keithfrombm said:
I don't understand why you can't. Lollipop allows it (you have to choose sd card directory for the app in question), at least on an app-by-app basis.
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Well for example the app called: e-sword.. that cant access or run if the modules its on a external SdCard..so I need to put all the modules in internal memory..
Atach my system and the nag screen of e-sword
But they are another apps like "Pixlr" its a photo editors and cant save in the ExtSdCard... I came from S4 and on that phone dont have any problems
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Oy. Sorry, I haven't even explored this dilemma, since I hadn't encountered it with any of my apps (yet). I tested out Pixlr, and you're right, it won't saved to the sd card (from the app). Not sure why. But I could still move the pictures with ES File Explorer or the built-in My Files. As for e-sword I can't find it in the English Play Store. So I couldn't test it out. Wish I could be of some help, but it'll take one of the smarter guys to field this question.
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This feature is available on lollipop but the app developer needs to implement it, most are using the old method of read/write which only works on 4.3 or earlier, if you can use an alternative until the app gets updated