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Google Chrome

How to Prevent Chrome from Adding Desktop Shortcuts for New User Accounts

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Generally, there is only one user uses Google Chrome on computer, (that’s you, with user name “First user”) unless you add few users. What if your relatives or family members or friends wants to access same Chrome browser instance from

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to
How to
Avast Free AV with SecureLine Installed but not activated

How to Uninstall or Remove SecureLine VPN from Avast v8?

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avast Free AV with SecureLine Installed but not activated

If you’ve recently installed latest Avast v8 cleanly on your computer by choosing “Express Settings” during the setup then you should know that SecureLine VPN service also installed for you along with Avast. FYI, recent minor update 8.0.1488.286 for Avast

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to Restore Default Settings for CCleaner

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Popular Crap Cleaning tool aka CCleaner from Piriform helps you not only clean temporary files in Windows but also protects your privacy by deleting browsers history and even more this tool allows to manage browser extensions and plugins as well.

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to Set Foxit Reader’s Zoom Level to 100% by Default for Every PDF Display

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments

We’ve already covered how to Set Default Zoom Level in Nitro PDF Reader to 100%, and by default Foxit Reader application on Windows sets default Zoom level for every PDF document to “Fit Width”, if you want that to be

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Firefox
Firefox Applications panel

How to Set Gmail as Default E-Mail Program in Firefox

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Applications panel

Gmail in Google Chrome already opens all email links by default, if you want Google mail to do the same in Firefox, then follow the steps mentioned below. Firefox uses Windows Operating System’s default email client like Thunderbird, Windows Live

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
How to
Windows features

How to Uninstall and Reinstall Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Windows features

We’ve already covered how to Uninstall IE10 in Windows 7 that gets back IE8/9 and in Windows 8, if you don’t like Internet Explorer 10 for the reasons like offering two versions: desktop and metro or modern UI or lack

Posted in: How to, Internet Explorer, Tips and Tricks
Firefox

How to Make Find bar in Firefox to Hide Automatically while Changing between Tabs

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Find bar in Firefox browser which you use to search for particular content on web page always brings some inconvenience to the user- it stays open and visible for all the tabs you’ve opened in browser and there is no […]

Posted in: Firefox, How to
Google Chrome

How to Disable Service/Site Handler Requests in Google Chrome

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

If you don’t want Google Chrome to show site handler requests you can disable them easily. Google Chrome lets web services to request you to open some kind of links for instance when you visit Gmail login page in Chrome,

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
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How to Enable and Disable Twitter Login Verification for your Account

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments

Finally by using its SMS service Twitter now allows users to set up two-factor authentication for their accounts which when turned on requires user to enter special code send by Twitter to phone to logon to the site apart from

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How to
Foxit Reader Start page with ad

How to hide Start Page and Advertisement Shown by Foxit Reader on Startup

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Foxit Reader Start page with ad

Yesterday we’ve covered how to set Foxit Reader default Zoom to 100%, today we’re going to share another useful tip for Foxit Reader users -that is how to hide Start page and ad showed by Foxit. Foxit Reader by default

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Chrome disable extensions command line switch

How to Disable all Extensions when you can’t open the Chrome browser?

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Chrome disable extensions command line switch

Sure, there is an extension available that lets you disable all Chrome extensions with a single click, but this extension will only be helpful when you able to launch the browser. But if Chrome browser denies to load and crashes

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
IDM Integration Chrome extension

How to Install IDM Integration Extension in Google Chrome Manually

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
IDM Integration Chrome extension

The article which I’ve written way back in 2008 on how to integrate internet Download manager into Chrome is old and needs to updated which I did. If you’ve Google Chrome installed on your computer and when you install IDM

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
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