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How to Remove Orange Firefox (4) Button

March 30, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Do you like Firefox 4? If you upgraded from Firefox 3.6.x to Firefox 4 one element you may not like in Firefox UI is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Firefox 4, Orange Firefox button, remove
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How to Fix Windows 7 SP1’s “Installation Was not Successful “ Error

February 24, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Having Microsoft released/made available Windows 7 Service Pack 1 via automatic updates and through its download site, if you get “Installation was not successful” … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting Tagged: Installation was not successful, Service Pack, SP1, Windows 7, Windows 7 Service pack 1
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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 disable Building Font Cache Dialog of VLC Player

December 5, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered the purpose of Building Font Cache dialog box shown by VLC Player that appears whenever you try to play a media file, this … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: building font cache, building font cache in vlc, dialog, disable, vlc player
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How to disable Visual Mouse Gestures in Opera 11

November 23, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Opera support mouse gestures, Opera 11 beta even better offers UI for these mouse gestures aka Visual mouse gestures, highlights mouse paths and helps … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Opera, Tips and Tricks Tagged: disable, disable visual mouse gestures, Opera 11, Opera 11 Beta, Visual mouse gestures
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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 Disable Direct2D in Firefox?

October 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Direct2D is enabled by default in latest Firefox 4 beta as well as in its final version also, but there will be problems faced … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Direct2D, disable, disable Direct2D, Firefox 4, GPU hardware acceleration, hardware acceleration, turn off
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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 Update Foxit Reader

August 6, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Its always recommended to update your applications to their latest versions specially if you are using PDF Reader all PDF Readers does release security … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: download Foxit Reader Updates, Foxit Reader, Foxit Reader update, installing Foxit Reader updates, update, updating Foxit Reader
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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
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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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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
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