Good evening, Paul. ( morning ? )  
   PQ> Do that after making a backup, particularly of your 'home' directory.  
   PQ> (That will have your personal settings for both TB & FF.)  Even with a  
   PQ> new working upgrade, the directory for TB will still be handy, as,  
  after  
   PQ> a new TB has run at least once, the contents of the old  
   PQ> ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/* can be copied into the new one.  You  
   PQ> could do the same for ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/* but you  
   PQ> might miss out on any add-on that you're wanting.  
    
   You have me guessing again, how to make a BU of this U'u ? I tried Acronis  
  on  
  it but it did not like the file format, it said that it needed 11+ hours to  
  do  
  this BU and I still do not know if it would be a real BU, I was trying a  
  clone.  
    
   PQ> I have tried version upgrades in the past on my little Dell netbook but  
   PQ> the they (plural) failed.  
    
   I am luckier than thou, my friend. I accepted the upgrade to the LTS  
  version  
  and it did it all by itself and I am now on it.  
    
   PQ> Look to its BIOS.  There might be settings there to switch-off the MoBo  
   PQ> hardware.  Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted.  :)  
    
   Nothing to be sorry about, getting two heads together at times solves  
  problems. Any how, I had a look at the BIOS and could not see what to vary.  
  I  
  even went to " Load default settings " and this neither was good. I do not  
  think that we are looking at the right horizon here, the audio from a music  
  CD  
  plays good, therefore the setup is proper, methinks. I will try again to let  
  the machine find whatever plugin it needs. Today, I got set up in the U'u  
  forum but have not had the time to ask questions. I perused a few questions  
  but did not find any good lead yet. As Ed is want to say : computors are  
  fun.  
    
  --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox  
   * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)