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Tips and Tricks

Find Which .NET Framework versions not installed

November 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Find out not installed .NET Framework versions on your computer

Posted in: Tips and Tricks
How to
Vivaldi Sync Settings

How to Set up Sync in Vivaldi browser

November 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Vivaldi Sync Settings

Vivaldi is now available with Sync feature, learn how to synchronize your Vivaldi browser bookmarks, extensions, settings & other data across all your devices

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

Opera 50 : How to Restore Opera Factory Settings

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Opera 50 offers reset button, learn how to enable it so that you can restore Opera factory settings when needed

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

How to disable unsupported browser message in Vivaldi browser

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Don’t want to see Google websites or its services like Google Drive showing unsupported browser message in Vivaldi browser, here is how you can disable that

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

How to disable CCleaner’s Scheduled tasks and Startup Item

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Find out how you can disable CCleaner Scheduled tasks CCleaner Update and CCleanerSkipUAC, and its startup item on Windows

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

Change Vivaldi Screen Captures Saved Folder location

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Find out how you can change Vivaldi Screen Captures default saved folder to desired location

Posted in: Tips and Tricks, Vivaldi
Google Chrome

Chrome : How to disable Videos Autoplay using Autoplay Policy

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’re using Google Chrome, here is how you can use the autoplay policy flag to disable autoplaying videos in Chrome browser.

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
How to
Avast Behavior Shield aswidsagenta.exe running

How to disable Avast Behavior Shield

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Avast Behavior Shield aswidsagenta.exe running

What is Behavior Shield in Avast? What does it do and why it is running? How to disable or turn it off.

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Firefox

How to disable default browser check by Firefox browser

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Stop Firefox from checking to see whether it is the default browser on startup

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
Firefox
Firefox warn me when websites redirect or reload the page

Firefox 56+: Where is ‘Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page’ Option?

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox warn me when websites redirect or reload the page

How to disable Firefox Prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page warning in Firefox 56, Firefox 57 or later versions

Posted in: Firefox, Tips and Tricks
How to
Download 32 bit Firefox for Windows

How to go back to 32-bit Firefox from 64-bit

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Download 32 bit Firefox for Windows

Disable Firefox migration to 64-bit and also know how to switch to 32-bit Firefox from 64-bit

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

IDM has found unreferenced and not deleted parts of old downloads in IDM temporary folder

October 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Here is what you need to do when IDM asks would you like to delete unreferenced and not deleted parts of old downloads it found in IDM temporary folder

Posted in: Tips and Tricks
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