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I've just noticed that over the past few months Opera browser seems to have lost its fucking mind, and now the folder:

C:\Documents and Settings[Me]\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\cache\sesn

is full of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of tiny .tmp files.

Is there any better way of getting rid of this monstrosity than what I'm doing now?

A month or so ago I posted here that Windows wasn't booting on my laptop (a ThinkPad SL400, for what it's worth), and the consensus was that I try a Linux live CD. I was away from home so I didn't get around to that until now.

I'm running a live CD of Ubuntu and everything seems to be working smoothly enough, except when I try to access the hard drive. I first get this message:

Cannot mount volume.

Unable to mount volume 'Hard Drive'.

And then a few seconds later:

Unable to mount Hard Drive

DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security

Why not leave some comments here, it'll be like shouting into an abyss.

Maybe I'll be able to see them, who knows?

The MYSTERY OF REDDIT

I have a ThinkPad SL400 laptop, and when I turn it on, I see the ThinkPad splash, then a few lines about hardware etc., and then nothing. It just sticks on a black screen.

Mashing various F keys got me to the screen where you can choose Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration, and the rest of those; but none of them seems to make any difference.

I'm almost certain I've lost the Windows CD, and I don't currently have any external HDD except for an 8GB flash drive.

Ideally I'd love to be able to get Windows to work (obviously) and failing that there's a few files on there I'd like to retrieve, although they're not essential.

So, r/techsupport, help me please!

I'm only in Canada for the summer, so I'm not familiar with all this stuff. I assume that excepting hitch-hiking, some sort of bus is the best way. Maybe Greyhound or something? Thanks, r/canada!