Hi folks, I installed qubes several days ago. I now have several problems and I would appreciate some help:
1) *How can I open WIndows 7 again?* First, I intended to install Qubes beside Windows 7, which was working fine. Instead I can only boot to Qubes now. How can I have a dual-boot setup so that I can also go to Windows 7? (Note: my files from Windows 7 were apparently not damaged and I have recently managed to get apparently all of them off of the computer and onto an external hard drive so they should be safe.) (I did read this file [ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/] but it seems to say that one needs to wipe out everything and reinstall Windows 7 and then reinstall Qubes. Can't I fix the GRUB file somehow so that I can use my existing installations and programs?) 2) *In Qubes the computer often gets slow as molasses.* I get error messages saying "Warning: unresponsive script" sometimes. When I try to open a VM it says that there is not enough memory and that I should close a VM first. When the computer gets like this sometimes I click on things and nothing happens or it takes forever for something to happen; sometimes I can't even close windows because they don't respond. (I am using an HP Elitebook 8540w laptop. It has 4 GB of RAM and an i7 CPU.) Also, when I shut down the computer sometimes it gets stuck and does not shut down all the way. It freezes with the Qubes splash screen there and the progress bar indicating partial or complete progress. 3) *Problem relating to program installation:* When I install programs in the Fedora or Debian templates they don't appear in the list of available programs in the templates or in the VMs based on those templates so I don't see how I can create shortcuts for programs in my VMs. 4) *Problem in getting a video player to work:* I have installed four different video players (Snappy, Budgie, Banshee and Parole) and none of them seem to be able to play videos I have downloaded (with Video Download Helper and Firefox in an App VM). (I can get the video players to launch not with the proper shortcuts but in another, awkward way, by going to Domain: personal -> personal: Software and then clicking around until I get to the right app which was previously installed and then clicking on "launch.") Also, the default player, apparently called "Videos," doesn't work. Am I missing something here? *This paragraph shows the problems which arise when I try to use each of the above mentioned video players*. You may (or may not) want to skip this paragraph. (I am including these video player error descriptions partly because they may give a clue as to an overall problem here.) (a) *Snappy*: The video player shows that a video has loaded but then when I click play it does nothing. (b) *Parole*: When I try to play a video I get the following error message: "Error GStreamer backend error Could not intialize Xv output." The only button to click on the error message dialogue box says: "Close." (c) *Banshee*: This video player doesn't play videos when I click play. It sometimes causes an error message which reads: "Additional multimedia codecs requires. An application is requesting additional multimedia codecs." Then there is a button which reads "find in software." (Other times when I click play after selecting a video the video player just does nothing.) (d) *Budgie*: This videos player does nothing when I click play after a video which has been loaded into the program is selected. (e) *Videos*: (Apparently this video player is called "Videos." It is the default player.) When I select a video and then select "Play with Videos" an error message comes up. It says: "H.264 (Constrained Baseline Profile) decoder, MPEG-4 AAC decoder are required to play the file, but are not installed." Then there is a button which says "Find in software." When I click that button I get another error message which says "Unfortunately, the H.264 (Constrained Baseline Profile) decoder and MPEG-4 AAC decoder you were searching for could not be found. Please see this website for more information." 5) *I can't update Fedora:* I have tried to update Fedora 23 to Fedora 25. I am able to download the update but then I click "Install" and nothing happens. I also click "restart and install" just below that and again nothing happens. What is going on with that? (I just tried that again and I got the following error message this time: *"Sorry this did not work Upgrade to Fedora failed. Details Detailed errors from the package manager follow:** Error running transaction: installing package filesystem-3.2-37.fc24.x86_64 needs 135168 on the /rw filesystem")* So I am frustrated. I had a whole life on Windows 7 and now I can't do most of what I used to do. (Do you think that maybe I downloaded and installed a bad copy of Qubes?) Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Vincent Gillespie [email protected] 978-830-4392 <%28978%29%20830-4392> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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