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How to Prevent Windows 10 Preview from Being installed Via Windows Update?

October 3, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’ve unknowingly downloaded and run ‘WindowsTechnicalPreview.exe file’ from this page provided by Microsoft by clicking on ‘Get the upgrade’ button, later, if you’ve … [Read more…]

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How to Remove ‘RealPlayer Cloud’ System Folder from Computer Folder?

September 26, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing RealPlayer Cloud on your computer, you can notice its system folder when you open the computer folder, if you definitely don’t want … [Read more…]

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How to Format the Background of Slides in PowerPoint Online?

September 25, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft PowerPoint on the desktop offers the Format Background option, it lets you format slide backgrounds, Microsoft is now offering the same feature for … [Read more…]

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Norton Security Performance Tasks Settings

How to Prevent or Stop Performance Tasks from being Run by Norton Security 2015?

September 24, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Norton Security Performance Tasks Settings

If you’ve installed Norton Security 2015 on your computer, know this: whenever your computer is idle, NS automatically performs background scanning and full system … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Security, Tips and Tricks
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How to Run JavaScript Commands in Chrome and Firefox Browsers?

September 18, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Nowadays, modern browsers don’t allow running of JavaScript from url the  bar due to security reasons, then how do you run a JavaScript command … [Read more…]

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How to Uninstall or Remove AVG Antivirus Free 2015 from your computer?

September 15, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

In this article, we’ll tell you how to uninstall AVG Antivirus Free 2015, if you’re not able to do that, then also we’ve got you covered with the tool provided

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How to Stop or Prevent cftmon.exe from running in Task Manager in Windows 7?

September 12, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

No Microsoft office Installed, but cftmon.exe process is running, how to stop it permanently. Noticed cftmon.exe process running in Task Manager under the

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Opera Start page with own created theme

How to Create your Own Theme for New Opera?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera Start page with own created theme

Making custom themes for Chromium-based Opera browser doesn’t get easier than this. Chromium/blink based Opera got support for themes in Opera 18 – Opera 15, 16 and 17 versions don’t support themes-. Norwegian browser by default comes with a few […]

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IObit Uninstaller attention clean now dialog

How to disable ‘Uninstall Monitor’ Feature in IObit Uninstaller 4?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
IObit Uninstaller attention clean now dialog

When you initiate uninstall of a program from the Control Panel’s Programs and Features (not using IObit Uninstaller), then IObit Uninstaller 4′s ‘Uninstall Monitor’ detects that- you can see UninstallMonitor.exe process running in Task Manager at that point of time-  […]

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New You user menu Chrome non signed

How to remove the ‘You’ User Menu from Chrome?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
New You user menu Chrome non signed

Chromium team has enabled the new avatar menu and testing it for a while now, if you’re using Chrome Canary or dev. version, you can notice the new ‘You’ menu button on top right, next to window controls, which is […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
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How to Retrieve Malwarebytes ID and License key, if lost?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Retrieving Malwarebytes registration information if you’ve misplaced it. Till the launch of Malwarebytes 2.0, lifetime license for anti-malware was available for purchase, now its gone subscription-based. If you’ve purchased Malwarebytes v1.x and using it on your computer, if you’ve lost […]

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Opera default browser setting

How to Set Opera Developer as the default Browser?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera default browser setting

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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