you mentioned your on Mint v19.3, if you upgraded from v19.2 or earlier chances are your running the 4.15 kernel series. but through the file manager can you see stuff you saved through that by chance? but if I connect it after everything boots up, then everything is fine.Īlso, maybe a small chance but try loading 'synaptic package manager' and then click 'edit > fix broken packages'.Īlso, you say you can't see much on desktop. because I know one of my older Sony 128MB USB sticks causes my system to act weird if it's connected during boot. do you have any USB devices connected at boot up? if so, remove those, power down, power system back up and see if it boots to desktop like normal. so try loading a older one and see if the computer comes back to life or not.Īlso, a small chance.
assuming you did not remove any of them, you probably have quite a few installed from the past.
You should be able to press ESC (or maybe it's SHIFT) before the OS loads to get to the menu and from there you can select which kernel to load. to create a new folder or file, to open the personalization settings, etc.). When the mouse right clicking doesn't work, the Windows explorer crashes or the user cannot see the right click menu (aka 'context menu') to perform several actions (e.g. Ill throw out some suggestions which may not do anything but it's worth a try. This tutorial contains step by step instructions to fix the following issue: Right click not working in Windows 10.
