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New You user menu Chrome non signed

How to remove the ‘You’ User Menu from Chrome?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
New You user menu Chrome non signed

Chromium team has enabled the new avatar menu and testing it for a while now, if you’re using Chrome Canary or dev. version, you can notice the new ‘You’ menu button on top right, next to window controls, which is […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
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Installed and loaded plugins in Foxit Reader

How to disable Foxit Reader Plugins?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Installed and loaded plugins in Foxit Reader

You could be surprised by the number of plugins Foxit Reader loads when you open it. Whether all these Foxit Plug-ins are necessary? May be not?. We’ve covered that Foxit Reader installs Foxit Cloud and Cloud Reading plugin and how […]

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Google Search box Speed Dial Opera 23

How to remove the Google Search bar from Speed Dial in Opera 23?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Search box Speed Dial Opera 23

Following Chrome, Opera too has added search box to the Start Page, useful for novice users as they may not know they can search from address bar too in Opera. But advanced users find it quite annoying, but they can […]

Posted in: How to, Opera, Tips and Tricks
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Norton popup particular exe safe

How to Turn off Pop-ups Shown by Download Intelligence in Norton Security

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Norton popup particular exe safe

If you’re a user, who spends most of the time updating browsers, programs and downloading files, then you likely to encounter lots of pop-ups from Norton Security with Download Intelligence feature in it, that can be annoying. In Norton Security […]

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Linking Yahoo Mail and Dropbox accounts

How to Unlink Dropbox and Yahoo Mail Accounts?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Linking Yahoo Mail and Dropbox accounts

How to Remove Dropbox from Yahoo Mail. A year back, Yahoo has integrated Dropbox into their Mail service which allows users to save large attachments they received and users also can attach files from Dropbox as well. After linking Dropbox […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
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Snagit image conversion wizard with addition of .snag files

How to batch Convert SNAG files to PNG Image format?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Snagit image conversion wizard with addition of .snag files

Snagit automatically saves unsaved capture as a SNAG file in DataStore folder, here is the full path to it : C:UsersusernameAppDataLocalTechSmithSnagitDataStore. The advantage with .SNAG file format -you can only open this file in Snagit Editor on Windows -is it […]

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Snagit Manage Profiles dialog

How to Create a Shortcut for Image Profile in Snagit 12?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Snagit Manage Profiles dialog

Assigning hotkeys for profiles in Snagit. Have you upgraded to Snagit 12? If you’re already using Snagit 11 version on your computer, then you’ll find the new capture method quite annoying. One click has been replaced with a new capture […]

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Yahoo mail showing Preview of link for new message

How to disable Link Preview in Yahoo Mail?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Yahoo mail showing Preview of link for new message

You might have not known about Link Preview feature in Yahoo Mail unless you’ve got an email from someone with a link in your account on the web. To try out this feature, compose a new message and paste a […]

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Arsmsvc.exe process running in Task Manager

How to disable or Stop armsvc.exe of Adobe Reader?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Arsmsvc.exe process running in Task Manager

We’ve already covered about Adobe Reader processes AdobeARM.exe and reader_sl.exe, these run on startup automatically. armsvc.exe is another process related to the Adobe PDF Program, which will be used when needed by Updater if you’ve enabled automatic updates for the […]

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How to install Avira Free Antivirus Offline?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

How to install Avira Free Antivirus without Avira Client and Online Essentials?, this article answers that question. When you initiate Avira Free Antivirus  download from its official website page, a small setup file will be downloaded, when you run it,  […]

Posted in: How to, Security, Tips and Tricks
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Select Default PDF Handler Adobe Reader

How to make Adobe Reader as Default PDF Handler in Windows?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Select Default PDF Handler Adobe Reader

Want to set Adobe Reader as default PDF Reader in Windows? Here is how you can do it. We’ve covered how to make Foxit Reader application as default for handling PDF files in Windows, if you want to make Adobe’s […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
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CCEnhancer remove custom cleaning rules added to CCleaner

How to Remove new program entries added by CCEnhancer to CCleaner

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCEnhancer remove custom cleaning rules added to CCleaner

How to Uninstall CCEnhancer?. CCEnhancer (CCE) is a freeware portable tool that expands CCleaner cleaning capabilities by adding support for more programs. This tool does that by adding rules (these are fetched from the Piriform support forum and other sources) and […]

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