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How to switch from Dropbox experimental to Stable version and Vice Versa

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’re a Dropbox user and wondering whether you can install experimental build over stable or similarly stable build over experimental one on your computer? (which is called downgrading), Answer is yes!, this answer is not from Dropbox, but from

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
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Metro apps already installed on Windows 8

How to remove All Default Apps from Windows 8

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Metro apps already installed on Windows 8

Have you found modern apps, those comes bundled with Windows 8 aimed at touch screen devices no longer useful for your desktop PC, you can remove all of them permanently by running few commands in PowerShell. Windows 8 comes with

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Firefox
Most Visited smart bookmark folder on bookmarks toolbar

How to get deleted “Most Visited” bookmark Folder back on Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Most Visited smart bookmark folder on bookmarks toolbar

After installing Firefox browser on your computer if you add or enable “Bookmarks Toolbar” from Firefox button>options, then you can see two default smart bookmarks folders displaying on Bookmarks toolbar they’re: “Most visited” and “Getting Started”. If you’ve unintentionally deleted

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Uninstalling Avast 8 with its uninstall utility

How to Uninstall Avast 8 Beta from your Computer

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 3 Comments
Uninstalling Avast 8 with its uninstall utility

Few users of XP reported on Avast forums that yesterday released Avast 8 beta version causing their system to slow down, if you’re facing any issues with this right now you can easily uninstall Avast 8 beta and reinstall Avast

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
Firefox

How to backup and Restore Firefox Extensions

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Do you want to transfer your installed extensions in Firefox to another PC? or planned to format your PC or wants to uninstall Firefox completely along with profile data folder that includes add-ons, or thinking to reset Firefox -all these

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Firefox

How to Set Firefox as Default PDF Reader

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Recently Firefox 19 Beta has been released with pdf.js, built-in PDF viewer enabled by default, since its not a plugin like to Chrome PDF Viewer that’s why this JavaScript based PDF Viewer is more secure. In fact you can set

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