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How to disable Picasa that makes Windows Photo Viewer Default again

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Windows Photo Viewer is the default program in Windows 7 to view Photos, whenever you double click on a photo in your hard drive it will be opened by Windows Photo Viewer. When you install Picasa in Windows, Picasa Photo […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Windows
Google Chrome

How to Export Chrome bookmarks to HTML file and import them later

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you want to uninstall Chrome completely to do a fresh install, then you may want to export all bookmarks you saved in browser to HTML file so that after reinstalling Chrome you can import them from same file. We’ve […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
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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 […]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
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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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