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The shell is a black screen which only shows what is expected of the indicator command prompt which is called, most of Linux systems tend to show an indicator in the user name, the name of the machine and the current working directory, as shown in the picture below:

The form of display is given by the prompt shell variable called PS, this means that setting this variable to change the look of the prompt, to practice the commands are going to change this variable to show the results of the variation in the indicator system.

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Sometimes it may happen that after a bad shutdown the computer, for whatever reason, when rebooting the system is an error and only shows the boot linux in single mode, then logically he applied the root password. This error may be due to an error in the disk or partition. Well one way to try to fix this is because once the password and single-mode type the following command at the command line:

df

which presents a report with the partition that has been affected by the error, once we have this information, to try to solve this type the following command:

e2fsck / dev / hd **

Taking into account that have been replaced by the ** for the partition number that you have returned the first command. The questions we ask for the second command to all who answered yes (YES). Once the order, type the command

logout

To exit the session and finally reboot the computer with the following keyboard combination:

Ctrl + Alt + Delete.

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GNU / Linux systems have multiple consoles and switch between the keyboard allows them whether it works in graphic mode or in text mode.

Although the procedure is different depending on the case in question. In text mode to change the linux console has to hold down Alt and then the function key corresponding to the console to which you want to access.

For example if you want to access the console must first press and hold down the Alt key, and then there is a push on the button called "F1" key combination that allows you to access the console first, if you will access the second one would have to press the combination Alt + F2, and so on with the first six text consoles.

I say the first six but can be more, since most Linux systems are configured by default to six consoles linux text in a more graphic way, therefore access to text consoles would press the key combination Alt and then the function key that can go from F1 to F6, whereas if you press F7 will have access to the Linux console in graphical mode.

On some linux systems you can not change the console text to more than 6 + 1 graph, or it is not recommended because doing so does not acknowledge, however if the keyboard has 12 function keys and the system installed linux is not very old could increase the number of terminals 12, 11 is the final text that would be more graphic.

It should be borne in mind that consoles have a lot of text may not be so advisable, because even if allowed to run different programs on different consoles and even into the Linux system with different user names according to the console. A novice user makes little use of these options.

It should be borne in mind that when it changed to a graphical console, if you want to switch to another console, you can no longer use the same key combination as in graphic mode does not recognize these.

So to switch between consoles on the original console in graphical mode has been pressing the key combination Ctrl + Alt + function key, ie it must also press the Control key.

Another more days! Often I find new users in the "art of managing a computer", and many of them have Internet connection. While know how to start surfing, have serious doubts when it comes to configuring your email, even reading the manual installation of your ADSL provider, which has offered a free email account. Well this little tutorial aims to fill this gap by explaining how to configure a POP mail account in Microsoft Outlook Express program, which most users have installed on your computer. Then touch the settings in other programs, "not only the lives of Microsoft software."

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One of the tasks that users most often repeated especially when sending or receiving electronic mail, is having to compress or decompress a file to attach it to email, or view the contents of the mail we have sent. This short tutorial aims to show how to handle one of the most widely used compressors like WinRar.

The advantage of compressing files is that when sending or receiving information that is sent or received is much lower so the time spent sending or receiving considerably diminished.

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Many users like to customize your operating system with themes and colors. Now I propose this program with which you can customize the home screen or boot Windows XP operating system.

In this case it is a program provided free by the company Stardock, which is dedicated to creating programs for customizing the system, among them there is a specific program called Bootskin, which allows the boot screen . program to install and configure your home screen, you can follow these steps:

1o. Step: First it has to download the program BootSkin to do this you must access the website of the company Stardock, you have the link below:

Stardock

Once you have accessed the link above, it shows you the page for the product in question, you'll see that there is a green button which says "download", or is a click on it and we are in a new page which provide us with different download links, the first is from download.com
To access the press where we put bootskin download, or on the image displayed. Once you have clicked on this link, we are a new website which reflects the discharge of the program, well here you will see that there is again another download link that is called now ( "Download Now"), which begins to press Download the program. Then we download the program and save it in your computer.

2. Step: After downloading the program, is now proceeding with their installation, to perform this action, we look at the folder where we stored the downloaded file, in this case the program is called bootskin_free.exe, and did a double click on it to run and install the program.

3. Step: After installing the program, we have to run to access the Start button and System in the Start menu, click on the "All Programs", which will give us access to the menu of programs, look for this menu a submenu called "WinCustomize" By placing the tab appears on the program called BootSkin, you only have to make a click on it to run so we can change our splash screen.

4th. Step Two: Once implemented the program, it shows a series of startup screens you already have installed by default, screens are presented in a list format to change the screen or arraque start, we have only to select which we like and press the button to apply "Apply." Once you press the screen is set up automatically and the next boot and windows should appear.

5. Step: If you want more screens to access the file format you use this second program is the file extension ". Bootskin," a place from which to download these screens is deviantart, you have the link below:

deviantart

when to enter the page of deviantart an easy way to find is that in the upper right hand placed on a search button "Search" box type in the word "bootskin" and click the Search button, a list screens that start when you click on that you like will give you the option of downloading it. Some of these screens already have the default format or extension. Bootskin ", others are compressed and the compressed file often results in several files inside but in this case that you have access to where the program is installed, usually in hard disk in the folder and program files within the latter in a subfolder called Stardock, in which you can find another folder called "WinCustomize," the latter appears to enter the folder for the program called "bootskin" and this is a subfolder called "skins" which are different startup screens installed. Here you only have to create a new folder and unzip it into the compressed file that we downloaded from deviantart.

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