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You can disable AdobeARM.exe but not the reader_sl.exe, Why?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Adobe Reader XI in your computer two processes related to it AdobeARM.exe and reader_sl.exe are automatically set to run at startup, you can notice them running under Processes tab in Task Manager. Let us see more details […]

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How to disable Picasa’s Screen Capture if you use Snagit?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing Picasa on Windows, when you press ‘Print Screen’ key on keyboard screenshots will be saved to ‘Screen Captures’ folder. What if you’re already using Snagit or other screen capturing program before Picasa install and you don’t want Picasa […]

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How to Enable Add-on Bar in Firefox Australis

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With Firefox 4, Mozilla has introduced Add-on Bar, new menu and ditched Status bar. While Add-on Bar that appears at bottom of Firefox window if enabled by you is for the placement of Add-on icons. It has been removed in […]

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How to Fix Foxit Reader’s Script Error in Windows 8.1

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you launch Foxit Reader, by default it shows start page and advertisements on startup unless you’ve disabled them in Preferences, if you try to open Foxit PDF Reader in recently released Windows 8.1 you can get script error saying […]

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How to Remove Google Earth Plugin?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Unless you install Google Earth Plugin only you won’t notice it in installed Programs list in  Control Panel, but if you also install Google Earth application in your computer then you can notice Google Earth uninstall option but not for […]

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How to Clear or delete Firefox Cache2 Files?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla is offering new HTTP cache for Firefox from version 27 onwards -currently in Aurora  but disabled by default – you can enable this  backend cache feature by switching value of preference ‘browser.cache.use_new_backend’ to in ’1′ about:config, you don’t need […]

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How to disable IObit’s LiveUpdate.exe Process?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install any one of IObit programs such as Advanced SystemCare, Uninstaller and other LiveUpdate component -IObit product updater that-checks periodically for program updates and notifies you when available – gets installed and registers itself in Windows as a […]

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How to disable/hide Twitter’s Photo and Video Previews on Web

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Twitter has recently enabled Media -Photo and video- previews for its apps on Android and Phone and also for Twitter.com website on desktop. This means: Twitter automatically shows previews of Photos and videos in your timeline. Twitter allows to opt-out […]

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How to Enable Old Menu bar (not Menu button) in Firefox Australis

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you still don’t know the news: Firefox with new UI, Australis is available on Nightly build and we’ve covered Classic Theme Restorer add-on that restores its interface to classic one which also includes Menu button. But do you know […]

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How to Uninstall Panda Security Toolbar and Panda URL Filtering from your computer?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Users get most annoyed with toolbars that not only occupy space on browser but also changes browser search engine, home page and new tab page, sometimes this can happen without user consent also. When you install Panda Cloud Antivirus on […]

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How to Clean Windows.old Folder in Windows 8.1 using CCleaner

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Instead of a clean install, if you’ve upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, then files and folders in Windows 8 would have been moved and kept in Windows.old folder. The files in this folder may come handy if upgraded […]

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How to install Themes in Opera 18+

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Before making the switch to Chromium/Blink, Opera browser powered by Presto engine supported the themes, but Chromium based Opera 15, 16 and 17 versions doesn’t support themes. Opera 18 which is currently on Next stream supports themes and installing them […]

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