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How to Set Opera Developer as the default Browser?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You know this, Canary version doesn’t allow to make it as a default browser saying it is a secondary installation of Chrome, but we’ve made that possible with a registry hack. And now Chromium based Opera has three release channels: […]

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Which Chrome Process is running in Task Manager? Stable’s or Canary’s?

July 29, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You’ll find this article useful, when the need arises for you to close canary or stable process in the Task Manager as respective browser stops responding for a

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Can I delete ‘Norton Installation Files’ folder on the desktop?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing Norton product like Norton Internet Security or Norton 360, you can notice ‘Norton Installation Files’ folder on the desktop, which is actually a shortcut points to Public Downloads folder in C drive, for e.g. it looks like this […]

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How to disable Foxit Reader Plugins?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You could be surprised by the number of plugins Foxit Reader loads when you open it. Whether all these Foxit Plug-ins are necessary? May be not?. We’ve covered that Foxit Reader installs Foxit Cloud and Cloud Reading plugin and how […]

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How to remove the Google Search bar from Speed Dial in Opera 23?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Following Chrome, Opera too has added search box to the Start Page, useful for novice users as they may not know they can search from address bar too in Opera. But advanced users find it quite annoying, but they can […]

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How to Turn off Pop-ups Shown by Download Intelligence in Norton Security

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’re a user, who spends most of the time updating browsers, programs and downloading files, then you likely to encounter lots of pop-ups from Norton Security with Download Intelligence feature in it, that can be annoying. In Norton Security […]

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How to Unlink Dropbox and Yahoo Mail Accounts?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

How to Remove Dropbox from Yahoo Mail. A year back, Yahoo has integrated Dropbox into their Mail service which allows users to save large attachments they received and users also can attach files from Dropbox as well. After linking Dropbox […]

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What is FCUpdateService.exe? & How to Remove it?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing Foxit Reader on your computer, you can notice FCUpdateService.exe running under the Processes tab in Task Manager with description ‘Foxit Cloud Safe Update Service’ even when the application is not in use. Read in detail what is Foxit […]

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Opera

Use Konami Code to Enable Power User Settings in Opera

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

The Opera desktop team has implemented Power User Settings in Opera 19, now available in Opera 23 as well. Opera software hasn’t talked much about this, perhaps they don’t want you to play with those, as they might damage your […]

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security

What Avast has to do with unsecapp.exe?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Started your computer and noticed unsecapp.exe process running on Task Manager which you’ve not seen before, its not accidental that after installing Avast this process runs, spotted and reported by many users in various forums recently. In fact, its Avast […]

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security

What to do when instup.exe (Avast Antivirus installer) runs for longer time?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’ve installed Avast in your computer, you might have noticed instup.exe running in the Task Manager under the Processes tab, this process with the description Avast Antivirus installer runs from the location C:Program FilesAVAST SoftwareAvastSetup. You can notice it […]

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Why IDM shows Update Notice Dialog?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Popular Internet Download Manager (IDM) doesn’t update to the new version automatically when available, but it checks for the new release every 2 weeks by requesting an update page from its website. When the update is found, and when you’re […]

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