Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts

June 24, 2014

No more Windows in my Lenovo G570

1 year before I waved good bye to Windows. Until this day I am still happy with that decision. The only thing was left of Windows in my laptop was its logo on Super/Meta key.

If you are not familiar with GNU/Linux, first you may wonder, at least for a little while, 'what is Super or Meta key'. Then if you think, you will understand that there is only one key on keyboards which has a Windows logo on it. Yes dear friends, we call it Super or Meta key in wonderland of GNU/Linux. No idea about other platforms.

May 21, 2012

Oh.. Windows, I am tired of you

Everything is okay with my laptop because I mostly boot to Ubuntu and very often to Windows 7. Therefore I do not have to worry about viruses and other threats. Still I have installed ClamAV, just in case if I ever got to use it. I have never seen any virus or malware in a computer system which I have been under my control. At least for last 4-5 years. Because I have learned to use them with so much attention for safety and security.

But I think this fight for safety has not ended yet. I have no idea how my father's computer at his office has got infected with a malware threat named as One Half 3666. Every single file, even many system file has infected with it and Avast Free Edition is putting them all into the virus chest.

Spreadsheets, documents, executables, every type of files are infected. I decided to format the drives and reinstall Windows XP. I have restored all necessary official files from Avast's virus chest and backed up into my laptop and of course using Ubuntu.

And now reinstalling the XP. Unfortunately, dvd drive in the system is not working. So first I had to find a software to create a Windows XP bootable USB drive. What similarly we usually do with GNU/Linux distros. I got a nice tool named WinToFlash. Thanks to DuckDuckGo. Using this I installed XP in my 2GB usb flash drive. Initially it took more time than usual disk way installation.

Now installing is getting finished so let me get onto it. Come back later to hear more. ;)

January 25, 2011

Need help to install LibreOffice

Now LibreOffice got the final and stable version 3.3. But I'm unlucky, because in my PC it showing error while installing LibreOffice. The error is as shown below.


When clicked 'Cancel' it shows another as below.


If anyone know to solve this please help me.

I think this happens because once I used two accounts and OpenOffice was installed as in both accounts. Then uninstalled all softwares along with OpenOffice. Only from one account. And then removed that account since there is no need of that account anymore. Still OpenOffice was working in another account but not available in Add/Remove. Then I wanted a fresh install of LibreOffice. So I deleted OpenOffice folder from C:\Program Files\. Since then I'm getting the error messages as above.

Please help me to install LibreOffice. I'm so eager to get it stable version in my PC.

Please, I don't want to reinstall the XP.