Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2018 February 17

= February 17 =

Google image search
I now see that during Google image search you can't go directly to the image itself to save it - for any particular image there are only kinky buttons leading to the website itself and other crap. Did they redesign the search recently? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 10:35, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * yes see Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:21, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

How to install second OS?
I just purchased an HP ENVY laptop. It has Windows 10 OS. I need to install Ubuntu 16.04.3 as a second OS. It does not allow me to do it. The boot from DVD should precede boot from the hard disk and I put an iso file in the DVD drive. I actually now have two DVD's: Ubuntu 16.04.1 which I used to install Ubuntu on a different HP laptop. It worked then but now it does not work on this new laptop. I think the initial OS then was Windows 7 and I wiped it out by installing Ubuntu 14.04 or even an earlier version over Windows. Today I also downloaded and burned to a DVD disk the latest version of Ubuntu 16.04.3, tried to install it in the new laptop and it did not work. The laptop boots to Windows 10 as if there is no iso file in the DVD drive.

What is going on and what shall I do?

Thanks --AboutFace 22 (talk) 22:52, 17 February 2018 (UTC)


 * When you say "The boot from DVD should precede boot from the hard disk", do you mean you configured the BIOS that way, or just that you think that should be default? Did you follow the instructions on this page?

Unlike in Windows 7 where I could change the order of the boot, I cannot seem to do it in HP Windows laptop. I got to the BIOS after I pressed F10 on the boot but there is no boot sequence in there at all. There are tables with various values but you can only change date and time, that's it. I googled and the answer I got seems to indicate that DVD precedence it a preset feature in HP Windows 10 BIOS. I now discovered something new, will try to use a little bit different maneuvers. Thank you. AboutFace 22 (talk) 23:57, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I finally solved it. This is the prescription:

''Turn on the computer and immediately press the ESCAPE button repeatedly, about once every second until the start up menu opens. Press F9 to open the boot device menu options. Use up and down arrow to select CD/DVD drive and then press ENTER.'' AboutFace 22 (talk) 00:37, 18 February 2018 (UTC)