Venkat Eswarlu
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.

Avast Free Antivirus gets ‘Ransomware Shield’ to Protect Your Files from Ransomware

Avast has added ‘Ransomware Shield’ to Avast Free Antivirus 20.5 (Windows) to increase the ransomware protection. Before, Ransomware Sheild is only available in Avast Antivirus Pro and Avast Internet Security products. Yesterday, Avast Software has released version 20.5 for Avast Free Antivirus and is now available for download with the USB drive and enhanced Botnet …

Windows 10 2004 gets Troubleshooter for OneDrive Files on-Demand issue

Microsoft has acknowledged OneDrive’s Files on-Demand issue in Windows 10 May 2020 Update and has released a troubleshooter as a workaround to affected devices to restore access to Files On-Demand. After updating to Windows 10 2004, some users may receive this error from OneDrive: “OneDrive cannot connect to Windows. Files on-Demand require a connection to …

Workarounds for Windows 10 2004’s Storage Spaces issue published by Microsoft

Recently Microsoft acknowledged Parity Storage Spaces issue in Windows 10 2004 and suggested affected users to set storage spaces as read-only without providing any workaround. The company yesterday, published workarounds and recovery steps on support page KB4570719 for the issue. After updating to Windows 10 2004, some users were unable to access Parity Storage Spaces. …

You can now run Malwarebytes AdwCleaner from Command Prompt

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner, with version 8.0.6, has received a Command-line interface, in addition to the graphical user interface. What this means is, you can scan and remove adware from your computer by using AdwCleaner without GUI also. Is your computer is running slow? Or showing pop up advertisements everywhere that can’t be closed and web browser …

Add Firefox like Downloads Menu to new Microsoft Edge with Extension

New Microsoft Edge browser lacks the downloads menu, an extension named “TMDM- The Missing Download Menu” available on Edge Add-ons Store adds that and shows all the downloaded files in a menu. New Microsoft Edge browser, doesn’t offer a menu to see downloads like the previous version of Edge provides in the hub. Current Edge …

Firefox 78.0.1 Fixes the Search Engines missing after the update Issue

Yesterday released Firefox 78.0 has broken search in Firefox and the list of search engines no longer appears in Settings after installing the update. Mozilla is quick to realize this and is releasing Firefox 78.0.1 today to address the issue. Firefox comes with these search engines: Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Amazon, and Wikipedia. Users use the …

Firefox lets you open PDFs with System Viewer

Firefox has taken a cue from Chrome and now offering the “Open in System Viewer” and ” Always Open in System Viewer” options for downloaded PDFs in its Download Panel. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (both legacy and new), and Firefox browsers have PDF Viewer built-in. Recently these browser vendors started working on improving and adding …

Malwarebytes confirms Performance Issues with Windows 10 2004

Apparently, there are multiple reports from users on Malwarebytes forum that the anti-malware is not working properly in Windows 10 2004, causing all sorts of issues such as slowness, apps won’t open, and computer freezes. Malwarebytes has acknowledged these issues today and said they’re investigating and suggested affected users to take the following actions to …