Recent content by jackdashack

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    Solved! Can any member here recoommend a forum for older laptops?

    The subject is pretty much the question. I have a Toshiba Satellite from around 2005. While I have Win 10 devices I have kept the old Laptop going. They were substantially built. I decided to try Ubuntu on it. Installed it and after a bit it seemed to me to be getting slower. So I put the...
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    Question Here's a corker. Toshiba early tablet / laptop still runs well. Screen question.

    Thanks you. I'll leave alone on an abundance of caution. Thanks for hanging in there with me. jack ":Dx
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    Question Here's a corker. Toshiba early tablet / laptop still runs well. Screen question.

    If you get that image on the web link it's the one I have. It works as well, and as slow as it did the day I bought it. haha! Well maybe better. I've taken all the big programs off and things eating memory. So I don't know if that plastic can come off or not? Who knows? Everyone's dead that was...
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    Question Here's a corker. Toshiba early tablet / laptop still runs well. Screen question.

    Ha! Thanks for being kind and calling it a relic and not a piece of junk. Actually, besides the Win10 HP Desktop and Win10 Tablet I have several old XP's I keep going. I use a paid programs to keep the viruses, malware, etc off limits. I've made them mostly dedicated to one task and removed all...
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    Question Here's a corker. Toshiba early tablet / laptop still runs well. Screen question.

    I have a Toshiba Laptop from the Jurassic age. Back then this XP machine was called a tablet. 2005 It had a rotating screen that would then fold back and you held it like a notebook, and it had a pen. Mine still runs well. Well, as well as it did back then. I keep it watched with Advanced...
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    Question I have an older flat screen Sanyo TV. After many years, (6?) This appeared on the screen?

    If I have to go get the model number I will. But maybe it happens on many models? What is this green filled small battery icon trying to tell me? It's never appeared before until lately. I'd say the TV is more 8 or 9 years. But it's a flatscreen with many ports. A Chromecast is plugged into the...
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    Best Antivirus Software and Apps 2015 (Archive)

    I have used Panda Free Edition for about 3 weeks. I decided to run Superantispyware and Malwarebytes. My old standbys. Super found 28 threats and Malwarebytes and a good lump too. It doesn't seem that Panda does that well as a stand alone. Besides which I am not too endeared to their forum. All...