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How to disable Panda Free Antivirus’s Upgrade Prompt Popups?

February 25, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Like the other free antiviruses, Panda Free Antivirus too nags users with popups to upgrade to their Pro version (check the below screenshot), these … [Read more…]

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How to remove Yahoo Application State Plugin in Firefox?

February 12, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing Yahoo Messenger on your computer (even with the custom method) when you open Firefox and visit add-ons manager, you can notice Yahoo … [Read more…]

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Make Windows 10 to display Delete Confirmation dialog

February 6, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you use Windows 7 regularly instead of Windows 8, you might have noticed Windows 10 (build 9926) doesn’t display a confirmation dialog when … [Read more…]

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How to Install Word, Excel and PowerPoint Apps in Windows 10 from Windows Store?

February 5, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released Universal Office apps for Windows 10 and are available on the Windows Store Beta. These apps are optimized for mobile and … [Read more…]

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Disable Search on taskbar Windows 10

Windows 10: How to disable Cortana on the Taskbar?

January 29, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Disable Search on taskbar Windows 10

With the build 9926, Microsoft has made available Cortana for Windows 10 Technical Preview users (in U.S only), she lets you search the web … [Read more…]

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Start Menu in Windows 10 build 9926

How to get Build 9879’s Start Menu in Windows 10 Build 9926?

January 26, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Start Menu in Windows 10 build 9926

For the first time in Technical Preview builds, with the Windows 10 build 9926, Microsoft has offered the start menu based on XAML, this … [Read more…]

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Windows 10 build 9926 lets you Set File Explorer to open ‘This PC’ as default Folder

January 25, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Whenever you open File Explorer, by default, it opens Home and shows favorites, frequent folders and Recent Files, this happens in the 9926 build … [Read more…]

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How to remove the Windows Rollback entry on Boot Menu added by Windows 10 Build 9926?

January 25, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Have you noticed it? After installing Windows 10 Preview build 9926, you can see a new entry with the name Windows Rollback on the … [Read more…]

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How to Uninstall or Remove AVG PC TuneUp?

January 20, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

AVG PC TuneUp is not a free program, after installing and using it for the trial period if you want to uninstall it, follow … [Read more…]

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Firefox

How to Optimize Firefox Portable with SpeedyFox to Run Faster?

January 3, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

There are reasons for people to use Firefox portable: You can take it anywhere and use without saving any data to that computer you’re … [Read more…]

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Google Chrome

How to Remove the Yahoo Extension from Chrome?

December 18, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Ymail is now nagging the Chrome users to install the Yahoo Extension (check the screenshot below), this extension claims to “optimize your Yahoo browsing … [Read more…]

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Firefox
FirefoxHello button in version 34

Fix: No Hello button in Firefox 34?

December 2, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
FirefoxHello button in version 34

Mozilla has released Firefox 34 with the new search UI, Yahoo search as default in North America, and WebRTC feature with the name Firefox … [Read more…]

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