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I recommend checking the disk usage with tools like df and du.

While the Disk Usage Analyzer is an excellent tool, it's output can be rather confusing if you don't know exactly what it's doing....

Yeah, renaming the file of course wouldn't work since Chrome would just look for the file using the old name anyway. Which is why I suggested adding it to the ".hidden" file instead of renaming the...

That is pretty much the definition of web app ;)

Anyway, they do a bit more than that, depending on the web app in question you might get notifications in the indicator area, and additional...

For the grab area, use a window border theme with wider borders and the area will be larger. Just get a Metacity theme you like from gnome-look.org, for example.

What comes to Compiz plugin, that...

If nothing else, you could always use a ".hidden" file to hide it (without having to rename it).

To do that just create a text file called ".hidden" in the same directory, and add any files &...

There really isn't anything you could do about it, it's not a file manager or separate application but a widget provided by the GTK toolkit, so the only people able to replace it with something else...

1) The default power management already should be doing that for you, no need to tweak any settings. (The CPU frequency governor should, by default, be set to "on-demand" which gives the best power...

What I'd recommend is delete the swap partition, then create a new extended partition in it's place, and then create new swap & the storage partition you want as logical partitions inside the...

Well, for once Gnome actually brings you more features and functionality, since the memory variable button in the calculator does a lot more than what a single "m" button in your basic calculator is...

Which theme are you trying to use, and does it contain correct versiosn of both GTK2 and GTK3 themes? Most new apps use GTK3 these days, but older ones might still be using GTK2 and the theme formats...

It's the button with "x" and a arrow pointing down on it.

As others have already said, yes, it has memory functions, as soon as you switch from basic mode to any other one. Scientific, for example.

Nothing hidden, nothing stealing things at boot time, just the "Grid" Compiz plugin responsible of resizing & maximizing windows when you drag them to screen edges or corners... ;)

Then make sure whatever program is supposed to draw the desktop for you is still running and configured correctly.

For Gnome (& Unity), the program in question would be Nautilus. Check that the...

There are numerous, very easy to sue, bootable CD's that can restore the Windows bootloader for you. And Windows itself is also able to create one for you. So you really don't need to reinstall your...

4 years is not that old, but it doesn't really matter, bad sectors are pretty much a sign that the drive is reaching it's end of life. So better make sure you have up-to-date backups of everything...

You really should't use the disk usage analyzer for this kind of purposes, it's intended for analysing where the disk space is being used, not how much available space there is on a specific...

How old is the drive & system? It's quite uncommon for any even recently modern hard drive to not support SMART.

Also, most hard drive manufacturers provide a bootable SMART test tool specific for...

That's because drives don't have permissions, the files and directories within them do. (And in case of FAT and NTFS filesystems, they don't even support UNIX permissions so they are set for the...

Disks is installed by default, just search for it in the Dash.

Once opened, select your hard drive, and then in the upper right corner you'll find a small button (with a gear icon), click that and...

Check the SMART status of the hard drive with the Disks tool, the errors could be caused by the drive being close to failing.

...also knowing the exact error you are getting would be helpful.

Yep, the swap is needed for hibernate, not suspend, and it doesn't require twice as much swap as there is RAM, only as much as RAM currently used on the system. So if you want to know you will be...

+1 to above.

MIDI is not a proprietary format, so ubuntu-restricted extras doesn't help. Actually it's not even an audio format, and therefore none of the gstreamer plugins (or any other codecs)...

Fully stopping the power button would only be possible on hardware level, the operating system (or any software) can't do that for you, and the system will still need to have the button somewhere to...

The files on mounted filesystems do not count as used space on your root filesystem. (just like the available space on mounted filesystem doesn't increase the available space on root)

There...