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How to

How to Stop mftutil.exe (Avast mft Utility) from constant running?

November 30, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing Avast free antivirus 2015, if you’ve noticed a mftutil.exe process with the description avast mft utility running constantly and consuming too much … [Read more…]

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Firefox

Firefox 34: Disable or remove One-Click Searches UI in the Search bar

November 26, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla all of a sudden wants to improve their search bar UI to support one-off searches or one-click searches. They’re rushed to apply a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to disable Clean Master’s cmcore.exe from Running?

November 4, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Cheetah Mobiles’ Clean Master for PC on your computer, you can notice its processes cmcore.exe and cmtray.exe running under the processes … [Read more…]

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How to

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

October 30, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

What is FAHWindow.exe? To which program it belongs to and how to remove it from your computer. When you install WinZip on your computer, … [Read more…]

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Google Chrome

How to Uninstall The Great Suspender Chrome Extension without loosing any Tabs?

October 27, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Popular The Great Suspender extension for Chrome claims to reduce memory footprint of the browser (you know how effective it is in doing that … [Read more…]

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

How to get an Invitation to Inbox by Gmail?

October 23, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Request an Invite to Google Inbox. Google is here with a new email service built on Gmail, its Inbox, currently it needs an invitation … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to Remove RaptorClient.exe Installed by McAfee Stinger?

October 14, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Know how to get rid of installed McAfee Raptor from your computer. After downloading McAfee Stinger, when you perform a scan with it, after … [Read more…]

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

How to disable or remove SkypeC2CAutoUpdateSvc.exe and SkypeC2CPNRSvc.exe Processes?

October 13, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

After installing Skype on your computer, when you open Task Manager, you can notice processes related to it constantly running under the ‘Processes’ tab. … [Read more…]

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Google Chrome

How to Mute Multiple Tabs at Once in Chrome?

October 8, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Its now possible to Mute multiple tabs in Chrome. Google has offered Canary and Dev channel users an experimental flag which lets you mute … [Read more…]

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How to

How to Shutdown or Restart Windows 10 from the Start Menu?

October 6, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

With the start screen in Windows 8, it was never easy to shutdown or restart the computer, now in Windows 10, if you’re using … [Read more…]

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How to

Windows 10: How to Hide Favorites, Frequent Folders and Recent Files in File Explorer?

October 4, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

In Windows 10 Preview, when you open File Explorer, by default it shows ‘Favorites‘, Frequent Folders, and Recent Files. If you don’t want to … [Read more…]

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How to

How to disable Secunia Update Agent (sua.exe)?

October 3, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Secunia PSI on your computer, you can notice related sua.exe process with a description Secunia Update Agent is running in Task … [Read more…]

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