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How to remove Windows.old Folder in Windows 8

September 18, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you haven’t formatted the partition and installed Windows 8 over it with custom install option instead of Upgrade or after Windows 8 Refresh, … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Windows 8, Windows.old
Google Chrome

Chrome 63+: How to disable WebGL

May 11, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Security researchers identified serious vulnerability in WebGL -which is turned on by default for Firefox and Chrome browsers – allows attackers to run malicious code … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: disable, WebGL
How to

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
How to

How to Open WebP Images on Windows 10/11 [2023]

April 12, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

It’s 2023, yet, Some Apps and Operating Systems including Windows 11, Windows 10, and older don’t support WebP image format out of the box. … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to Tagged: images, PC, view, WebP
Firefox

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
How to

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
How to

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
How to

How to Integrate Free Download Manager with Google Chrome,Firefox,Opera and Safari Browsers

July 30, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve already covered how to integrate Internet Download Manager into Google Chrome, but Internet Download Manager is not a free application. Let’s look at … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Free Download Manager, integrate Free Download Manager with Firefox, integrate Free Download Manager with Google Chrome, Integrate Free Download Manager with Opera, integrate Free Download Manager with Safari
How to

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
How to

How to Update VLC Media Player

July 22, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you are using the popular VLC Media Player, you can check updates for it from it’s help menu. It is always recommended to … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Updaing VLC player, update VLC Media Player, update VLC player, updating VLC media player, VLC MEdia Player, vlc player
How to

How to install Nero 10 Free version without Ask Toolbar

July 13, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Nero released  Nero BurnLite 10 free version which offers simple CD,DVD copying and burning capabilities but the annoying thing is Nero BurnLite 10 comes … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: ask toolbar, install Nero 10 free without ask toolbar, Nero 10 BurnLite 10 without ask toolbar, Nero 10 free, Nero 10 free version, Nero 10 free version without ask toolbar, Nero BurnLite 10
Firefox

How to disable Plugin-Container.exe Process of Firefox

July 7, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

In Firefox 3.6.4 and above versions, plugins like Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Silverlight are  loaded in a separate process called Plugin-container.exe and helps … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: crash protection, crash protection in Firefox, disable plugin-container.exe, plugin-container, plugin-container.exe, plugin-container.exe disable
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