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How to Undo Changes made by AVG PC TuneUp to your computer?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install AVG Free Antivirus, apart from crucial security components needed for functioning of AVG it will also install PC Analyzer component into your computer, because of that ‘Fix Performance’ tile appears on AVG main window. When you click […]

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Avira online essentials client

How to Uninstall Avira Client installed by Avira Online Essentials in Windows?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Avira online essentials client

Avira Online Essentials has been released yesterday and available in English and German languages, it is an online service that lets you install Avira products on multiple devices from the dashboard in the browser and allows to manage them, when […]

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McAfee Securty Scan Plus

How to Uninstall Useless McAfee Security Scan Plus?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
McAfee Securty Scan Plus

Before downloading Adobe products such as Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash Player from their website if you don’t pay attention, along with Adobe application McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSSP) also gets downloaded and installed on your computer. MSSP is not […]

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Yahoo Mail tabs preview mode

How to enter Boss Mode in Yahoo Mail?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Yahoo Mail tabs preview mode

For multi-tasking benefits in Yahoo Mail Yahoo has offered Recent View in place of tabs, after users outcry they’ve added tabs back and they’re available under View>Multitasking. After enabling tabs emails you read, new messages you compose, contacts and calendars […]

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How to disable or remove Bingsurrogate.exe?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Bing Bar aka Bing Toolbar in your computer it will be installed for Internet Explorer and you can notice processes related to it running in Task Manager under Processes tab when Internet Explorer is open, they’ll vanish […]

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Snagit OneClick

How to Disable OneClick of Snagit

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Snagit OneClick

Unless you’ve Snagit not running, when you launch TechSmith’s Screen Capture program for the first time after its install, OneClick window interface appears on top of the screen – you can drag and place it on left side or right […]

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Process Explorer v16 VirusTotal

How to Enable VirusTotal.com Checking in Process Explorer?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Process Explorer v16 VirusTotal

Process Explorer, takes where Task Manager leaves off, shows detailed information about processes running in your computer and is one of the tools in Microsoft Sysinternals suit, and it has got an update, v16 integrated support for VirusTotal.com. Now from […]

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Firefox
Firefox 3D View

How to view webpages in 3D mode in Firefox

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox 3D View

You could’ve ignored 3D View feature aka Tilt in Mozilla browser, which is introduced with Firefox 11, though this feature is intended for developers to view their pages in 3-dimensional  mode; when you enter this mode, it allows you to […]

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AVG Secure Search Update .exe process

How to remove AVG-Secure-Search-Update-1213b.exe?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
AVG Secure Search Update .exe process

If you’ve installed AVG Free Antivirus in your computer, after few days of using it you may notice AVG-Secure-Search-Update-1231b.exe running under processes list in Task Manager. What happened? AVG has silently downloaded that update and not installed in your computer, […]

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Picasa Photo Viewer configuration

How to disable Picasa that makes Windows Photo Viewer Default again

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Picasa Photo Viewer configuration

Windows Photo Viewer is the default program in Windows 7 to view Photos, whenever you double click on a photo in your hard drive it will be opened by Windows Photo Viewer. When you install Picasa in Windows, Picasa Photo […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Windows
Google Chrome
Chrome import bookmark and settings

How to Export Chrome bookmarks to HTML file and import them later

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome import bookmark and settings

If you want to uninstall Chrome completely to do a fresh install, then you may want to export all bookmarks you saved in browser to HTML file so that after reinstalling Chrome you can import them from same file. We’ve […]

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AdobeARM.exe process

You can disable AdobeARM.exe but not the reader_sl.exe, Why?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
AdobeARM.exe process

When you install Adobe Reader XI in your computer two processes related to it AdobeARM.exe and reader_sl.exe are automatically set to run at startup, you can notice them running under Processes tab in Task Manager. Let us see more details […]

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