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How to disable Avast’s HTTPS Scanning Feature

August 31, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Starting from Avast 2015 version, Web Shield component in it started scanning for HTTPS websites for malware, this ‘HTTPS Scanning’ feature is enabled by … [Read more…]

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How to get Vivaldi App Launcher on taskbar

August 31, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

We all know about Chrome App Launcher, which lets you  access Chrome apps from the desktop, how about getting App Launcher for Vivaldi browser … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Vivaldi
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Video Autoplay setting Twitter

How to Disable or Stop Videos from Autoplaying on Twitter

August 29, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Video Autoplay setting Twitter

Prevent Twitter from autoplaying the videos in your timeline. Across Twitter.com website and in your timeline, native videos, GIFs and vines will autoplay (though … [Read more…]

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How to reinstall All Default Apps in Windows 10 at Once

August 22, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Reinstall all Windows 10 apps by running a PowerShell command. After installing Windows 10, you may want to remove default Apps Microsoft ships with … [Read more…]

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How to Create a System Repair Disc for Windows 10

August 18, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Like Windows 8, Windows 10 also lets you create a repair disc. Though Windows 10 offers the advanced options that contains recovery tools to … [Read more…]

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Windows 10 OneNote

How to Uninstall and Reinstall built-in OneNote App in Windows 10

August 14, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Windows 10 OneNote

OneNote is also one of the default Apps that comes installed with Windows 10, if you ran into issues or got an error while … [Read more…]

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How to disable Flash in Microsoft Edge Browser on Windows 10

August 11, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Remove Flash from Microsoft Edge browser. If you’ve not installed Flash Player for Firefox browser which not only slows down the browsing and consumes … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Microsoft Edge, Tips and Tricks
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How to Change the Default PDF Viewer in Windows 10

August 7, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Easily set Adobe Reader or other as default PDF Reader in Windows 10. In Windows 10, Microsoft Edge is not only the default browser, … [Read more…]

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How to Stop background apps in Windows 10 from running

August 5, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Disable or turn off background apps running in Windows 10. Windows 10 is fast and has no performance issues reported by the users so … [Read more…]

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Microsoft releases Troubleshooter tool to Show ‘Get Windows 10 App’ in the System Tray

July 31, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems with all required updates installed will automatically see ‘Get Windows 10 App’ in the task bar to … [Read more…]

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Stop Insider builds option in Settings Windows 10 Preview build

How to leave the Windows Insider Program Now?

July 31, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Stop Insider builds option in Settings Windows 10 Preview build

Ok, since October 1st –when Windows Technical Preview began –till July 29th, you don’t have Windows 10 available, that’s why you’ve joined the Windows … [Read more…]

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Create installation media for Windows 10

How to Perform a Clean Install of Windows 10 after the Upgrade

July 30, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Create installation media for Windows 10

Unless you’ve purchased Windows 10, you can’t install it on your computer (because clean install requires a product key to insert during the installation), … [Read more…]

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