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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

How to Uninstall or remove Avast Cleanup (GrimeFighter) from your computer

July 15, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Avast Free Antivirus 2015 R3 has been released with the inclusion of HIPS and improved Windows 10 suppor…

Avast Free Antivirus 2015 R3 Released

July 13, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Avast software has officially released final/stable version of Avast 2015 R3 with build number 2015.10.3…

Troubleshooting

Fix Malwarebytes’ SDKDatabaseLoadDefaults Failed Error

July 13, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Whenever you open Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and initiate a scan by clicking on ‘Scan now’ button, the pr…

How to open Internet Explorer in Windows 10

July 9, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Can’t find Internet Explorer in Windows 10? Here is how to open it from the Start menu or by using taskb…

Vivaldi New Snapshot lets you Customize Speed Dial for a Cleaner look

July 8, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Vivaldi 1.0.219.3 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux and is available to download. This snapsh…

Office Compatibility Mode extension for Chrome now lets you download Microsoft Office Files

July 7, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Google’s Office editing extension for Chrome now lets you download Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Off…

How to hide or remove Vivaldi Status bar

July 7, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Status bar in Vivaldi not only shows link destinations on hover over, but also offers these buttons: Sho…

Opera Software Starts to Promote SurfEasy VPN in Opera 32 developer Stream

July 7, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Three months back Opera software has acquired SurfEasy VPN, they started to promote it in Opera 32 devel…

Avira builds its own browser based on Chromium, now in Beta

July 6, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Avira browser (beta) is available for testing. German security company Avira has made a browser ‘Avira b…

How to Set Microsoft Edge New Tab Page to Blank

July 5, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Till now Microsoft Edge browser allows to import bookmarks from other browsers into it and also lets you…

tips and tricks

Windows 10 Now lets you Turn off ‘Web Results’ in Search

July 4, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Windows 10 build 10158 offers an option in Cortana Settings to not to include web results in the Search….

Dropbox makes Gmail Integration Optional for Windows and Mac

July 4, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Don’t worry! The Dropbox desktop client doesn’t install Dropbox for Gmail Chrome extension automatically…