>> Yes, as i said this problem has persisted for a while, across a number of >> different installs.
>Installs <> different versions! Yes, sorry, different versions. >>What is a parallel install? >[Puzzled blink] >It means you install another version in its own root partition, >alongside Windows and your main Linux. >It is, FWIW, perfectly safe to share a /home partition between 2 >different installs of the same version of Linux. If you wish to keep >your account settings separate, e.g. for different versions, then use >a different username. No, i haven't done this. Since i have been through a number of versions, i am not sure doing so would help. Possibly a different linux distribution would show different behaviour (as windows does), but this is not likely going to tell me what the issue is, is it? j
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