After a clean start was still having problems so have opted to stay with mint 17.2 mate 32bit system.
Okey dokey … weird that it works for me though.
I wonder if it’s something that only applies to the 32bit version (I’m using te 64bit version) … was the second install also the 32bit version ?
Yes it was the 32bit version the reason for installing a 32bit version on a 64bit computer was to run a web based web-conferencing software package.