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.

Bug in Chrome causes multiple Software_Reporter_Tool.exe Processes to run

Google is investigating a bug in Chrome 78 that causes four processes of Software_reporter_tool.exe aka Chrome Cleanup to run on the relaunch of the browser where it should be one process running with 3 helper processes. Users need no introduction about infamous Software_Reporter_Tool that has been baked into Chrome browser by Google to periodically scan […]

Microsoft Edge Chromium stable quietly imports tabs you’ve set aside in Old Edge as Favorites

While old Microsoft Edge’s “Set Tabs Aside” feature is not yet available in Chromium Edge, we’ve noticed the new Edge stable hints in the tab context menu that you can find tabs you’ve set aside in Favorites. As we said the feature is not yet available in the new Edge browser, what happened here is …

Fix Malwarebytes 4 Shows “LoadLibrary failed with error 87: The parameter is incorrect”

Recently some Malwarebytes users who installed or upgraded to recently released version 4 are reporting they’re receiving “LoadLibrary failed with error 87: the parameter is incorrect” when they try to open it. Some users reported on Malwarebytes forum [1] [2] they can’t open Malwarebytes 4 after installing, affected users said restarting the computer and uninstall …