I accidentally added two of the same applets to my panel and can't figure out how to remove one of them. Probably not looking in the right place which would be....?

Right click on the applet, left click on "Remove from Panel". Gnome and KDE work a lot like windows interface-wise.

Also, please tell us exactly which desktop manager you are using. i.e. KDE or Gnome. The answers may be slightly different. There are LOADS of window managers and they all work slightly differently. (Sometimes VERY differently).

And I don't think my last post got through so will send it off again, as an addition to it; I asked about loading software from a coverdisc (how and to where), also how would downloading from the internet work? As far as files being places where they need to go or is that manual?

I've received it 4 times now. Perhaps you have the option to see your own posts turned off in your mailing list settings?

If you look in the archives (on the website), several people posted their suggestions. (I did I know)

Downloading from the internet works the same way as it does in windows, only a little faster (I've noticed). In regards to the coverdiscs, my opinion on that was covered in a previous post.

When installing programs, you can download rpm's anywhere.

rpm -ivh packagename.rpm

will install it and put all the packages in the right places,no matter where you downloaded the rpm files. (you need to be root to do this)

You may find this handy: in a terminal type kelly@computer$ su it will ask for a password (the root password) type it in, hit enter You will get the prompt: root@computer#

That's how you temporarily log in as root using a terminal. When you have finished doing whatever (i.e. installing rpm's), type exit to exit back to your normal user.

If you ever need help on a command, type: man <program name> i.e. man rpm

it will give you it's manual page. If you need to exit the man page, just press q (i.e. for quit). That took me ages to work out!!!!

Trying Mandrakes software manager (see BJ's post) is recommended, it will download the rpms automatically, and install them too. i.e. learn to crawl before you try to run.

Other than all the other suggestions people have made, I would say that maybe you just need to play a bit more, and be a little bit bolder. i.e. try these things out. If you are not logged in as root, then you can't do any *Serious* damage, and if you do, so what? Most people reinstall linux a few times when they start out- you learn from your mistakes (and I make a lot of them).

Also, perhaps read one of those "Linux for Dummies" books from the library (or buy one). I always read up using those kinds of books when doing something new and then move on to more complicated books when I get the basics sorted in my head.

Ricardo