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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Come on Guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>I thought PLUG was supposed to promote and encourage the use of LINUX within the Perth area, which I would have assumed, I thought, at the very least, just may have included, returning Emails.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Both my neighbour and myself have wives with disabilities and are petty-well house bound and therefore can't attend PLUG meetings, so if any assistance was to be forthcoming, it would most likely have to be in house.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Sorry to sound like I'm nagging, but Windows is being an absolute pain in the *&$R%(&^. and is starting to cost us money, and it would be a shame if you guys lost a couple of converts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Below is my original Email, dated the 23rd July<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Once again I look forward to your reply. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Dave Orson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Thanks for your reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Since my Email on the 16th, things have got a little worse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>The original enquiry was to ask for help in setting up a couple of programs that would put one step ,closer to getting out of Windows altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Those programs are, <b>OANDA FX Trade</b>, World Enigma Groups <b>ENIGMA</b> Emulator, and <b>the World of Tanks</b> game site. All these have LINUX versions and are supposed to be plug and play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>That was the original question, THEN!!!! I forgot the LINUX password to access my LapTop. I had just completed an update and hadn't had time to document it, then promptly forgot it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>The next thing was that I helped a neighbour install Linux Mint 19 Cinnermim onto a replacement hard drive, He then promptly went and screwed up his ThunderBird Mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>My suggestion to him now, is to re-install Linux and start again. He hasn't been there long enough for him to have saved much, so I think this might be the only way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>I am running Mint 19 Cinnermin Tessa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>My interest in Linux started back in the 1980's when my son joined the Navy and got into UNIX. as a result of this I ran UNIX for quite a while until he moved to Sydney and was no longer around to help out when I stuffed up. After that my interest in UNIX, Linux has never left. Now my main aim in using Linux is to give Windows the flick.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>I look forward to your reply<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>David C.N. Orson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Merriwa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Western Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>0448 407 112<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;mso-contextual-alternates:yes'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;mso-contextual-alternates:yes'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>David C.N. Orson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Merriwa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Western Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>0448 407 112<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>