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Good to know. Thanks.

Winaero Tweaker sounds like a nice program. However, it appears to require installation, whereas I keep my installed, non-portable software at an absolute minimum.

Thanks Ghot. WinSetView helped a lot. And I did not have to install it!

Explorer wastes an enormous amount of screen estate on features that are not interesting to me: 1. Library folders: I do not want them; I place, as far as possible, everything that matters on a separate partition, where they can be safely shared with Linux, and where they are also safe from...

Did Linux actually accomplish what it said it did? It happened to me more than once under Linux that I dit a copy to or a format of a usb stick and that subsequently it turned out that nothing had been done because the stick had become read-only.

Did you check out the LibreOffice documentation site? They do have a Getting Started guide.

DocBook is not from Google. It has been designed for documentation and other structured text formats. See e.g. What is DocBook?

I have a directory with notes, and a subdirectory with notes, registry patches and scripts for windows. Among the notes is a long story about everything I did to install and configure archlinux, and another fairly long story on making windows somewhat inhabitable; I update them as needed and...

Might as well install them on a separate partition, to keep them impervious to Windows mishaps. I keep one folder in the root of my D:-drive for portable stuff, such as software that can be 'installed' by unzipping it in a new folder, and within that folder I have a folder for the PortableApps...

Did you look into monitor settings? Of course this won't explain why it suddenly stopped working.

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Another one here. I am 73, and do some formal and informal computer support for others, which is the main reason that I have a windows boot option on my machines. The other reason is that, like other people here, I like to tinker with operating systems. I plan to move the Windows 10 of my...