<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 15:09 +0200 schrieb Donny George: > is there any way to return to the previous settings like we do in > windows. i doubt there is any way to recover windows from someone who manually starts to replace .dll's from a <a href="http://command.com" target="_blank">command.com</a> shell which seems to be similar to what ou did to your system ... you could try to reinstall every xserver-xorg related package (search in synaptic for installed packages with that sting in the name) to overwrite what you copied over ... but that will take a lot of time and not guarantee that you dont have any cruft of these tarballs left in the end so that i guess a reinstall might be the easier and way less time consumng solution ... ciao oli -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>hey oli i cant log into the desktop then how will i access the synaptic manager, the problem if i do a reinstall is that i will loose all my earlier settings. it took almost a week to configure many things on my desktop so that it would be compatible for many of the things that i need to work with. is there any way at all to roll back the changes made donny