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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

Posted in: Firefox, How to
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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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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

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

How to Disable URL Autocomplete in Firefox 14 Address bar

June 11, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Firefox address bar aka awesome bar starts to show suggestions in a drop down menu when you start typing, you can then select any … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Firefox 14, URL Autocomplete
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How to Change the Default PDF Reader in Windows 8

May 15, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you don’t know: Windows 8 by default comes with a metro-style PDF Reader called Windows Reader, this program is the default app for opening … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Default PDf Reader, PDF, PDF Reader, Windows 8, Windows Reader
How to

How to Disable or Turn off Windows Defender in Windows 8

April 8, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

There is no MSE in Windows 8, it is not compatible in Windows 8 that’s why Microsoft merged MSE with Windows Defender. Now Windows … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: disable, turn off, Windows 8, Windows Defender
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How to Uninstall IE10 Platform Preview from Your Computer

April 13, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Yesterday Microsoft announced first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 at MIX if you’ve installed IE10 platform preview in your Computer you should know … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: IE10, IE10 platform preview, IE9, uninstall, uninstall IE10 platform preview
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How to enable or disable WebGL in Firefox in 2022

December 23, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 8 with WebGL activated by default. WebGL brings 3D graphics to Firefox 4 opening the door for developers … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: disable, Firefox 4, WebGL
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How to Turn off/disable Protected Mode in Adobe Reader X [Updated]

November 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Protected Mode in Adobe Reader X is enabled by default and malicious PDF documents can’t launch arbitrary executable files or write to system directories … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader X, disable, disable protected mode, Protected Mode, turn off, turn off protected mode
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How to Downgrade from IE9 to IE8

September 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you’ve recently installed Internet Explorer 9  Beta on your computer, you may have come to know that you can no longer access IE8, IE9 … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Internet Explorer, Tips and Tricks Tagged: downgrade, downgrade from IE9 to IE8, downgrade to IE8 from IE9, IE8, IE9, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9
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How to Force Windows 7 for a Faster Shutdown

July 27, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

It is really annoying that Windows 7 starts up so quickly, but it doesn’t shut down as quickly as it should be. It needs to … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Quick Windows 7 shutdown, shutdown, Shutdown Windows 7 fastly, shutdown Windows 7 super fastly, Windows 7, Windows 7 faster shutdown, Windows 7 shutdown
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