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.

Microsoft fixes the “Administrator Mode Detected” Notification bug in Edge Canary

Recently Microsoft announced a list of improvements they’re going to deliver to Edge Preview builds in the months to come, the company promised to fix the Administrator mode detected notification received by users on every launch of browser, MS is now testing that behind a flag Edge canary. The “De-elevate browser on launch” flag when …

Microsoft releases Mountain’s Glow theme for Windows 10

Microsoft released a new wallpaper pack containing beautiful images of 17 mountains located in different countries in the World on Microsoft Store with the name “Mountain’s Glow” and is available to download for Windows 10. Microsoft asks to take a look at ” these sweeping views of 17 spectacular mountains around the world”. The Mountain’s […]

Microsoft announces the new features coming to Edge in the next two months

After releasing Edge Preview builds, Microsoft Edge team is working to bring new features and improvements to Chromium-based Edge browser. The team has looked into the feedback received via smiley button, insider forum, and their twitter handle and has decided to come up with a post by summarizing significant feedback and provide an update on …

Latest Avast 19.7 version has Google Analytics tracking enabled by default here is how you can disable that

Beginning from Avast 8.x, the antivirus has Google Analytics module integrated into the product. The company uses GA to know, how users use the Avast UI, which parts they browse and other stuff. Avast anonymizes this data and utilizes to improve their Product in future versions. The topic now came into light as Avast itself […]

Microsoft brings an experimental feature to Chrome to improve battery life

Microsoft after moving to Chromium started working on improving device battery life. Based on their initial test results, disabling media caching to disk causes less disk activity during the media playback, by keeping the disk less active power consumption will also be decreased, which automatically results in power savings. MS knows how to improve battery …