Henry, Glad to help.
Many unexpected bonuses, such as, a nice old Canon scanner which is no longer supported by windows (apart from via expensive 3rd party software) worked perfectly as soon as I plugged it in, and an SD slot which wouldn't read SDHC cards under windows, despite wasted time with drivers, now reads all cards under LInux.
This pdf guide should help you set it up, or you can buy the boot DVD from ebay for less than a couple of squids including postage,
Good luck.
http://www.linuxmint.com/documentati...glish_17.0.pdf