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<DIV>Hello</DIV>
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<DIV>Mint Cinnamon 17.3 64 bit from LXF 207 Feb 16</DIV>
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<DIV>Its been a long time since I came to the group as most of the talk was way
above my head and I use desktops not laptops as they are easier to modify so
that was another reason.</DIV>
<DIV>I hope I have got the posting right as its many years since last
time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Installed Mint OK but it will not recognise password or username which I
had installed a few minutes earlier.</DIV>
<DIV>Typing them in correctly with correct case several times just gave
the message that either wrong names had been entered or the case was
wrong.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have re installed four times now booting on to a clean HDD and
no mistake has been made. During install I went through the process of
getting Mint to identify the keyboard which is a Microsoft business
model of British format. </DIV>
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<DIV>It is on its own drive dual booted from the BIOS for either the Linux or
Win 7 drives. I do not use the Grub bootloaders etc as experience shows
that if you remove Linux you lose access to Windows and have to start all over
again.</DIV>
<DIV>I am quite proficient with windows PC's but relatively new with
Linux having tried a couple of distros in the last ten years but now wish to
make a determined effort with Mint.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope you can advise so I can move on. Found nothing definite on
Google which was mainly people losing their passwords which is not this
case.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks in anticipation that you may be able to help me with something not
too complicated.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Alan.</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>