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How to Uninstall or Remove Avast Online Security Plugin from Firefox, Chrome and IE browsers at Once?

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

We’ve covered how to remove Avast Online Security Plugin (this works for Avast v8 only), at that point of time, Avast eight allowed to remove its plugin from browsers through ‘Browser Integration’ in Settings, which is not the case with […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Finding canary or stable process in Task Manager to kill

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

July 29, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Finding canary or stable process in Task Manager to kill

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

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks

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

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 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
Installed and loaded plugins in Foxit Reader

How to disable Foxit Reader Plugins?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Installed and loaded plugins in Foxit Reader

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
Google Search box Speed Dial Opera 23

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

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Search box Speed Dial Opera 23

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 […]

Posted in: How to, Opera, Tips and Tricks
How to
Norton popup particular exe safe

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

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Norton popup particular exe safe

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
Linking Yahoo Mail and Dropbox accounts

How to Unlink Dropbox and Yahoo Mail Accounts?

July 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Linking Yahoo Mail and Dropbox accounts

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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Tips and Tricks

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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Tips and Tricks
IDM update notice

Why IDM shows Update Notice Dialog?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
IDM update notice

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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Tips and Tricks
YouTube showing error occurred

Fix YouTube’s ‘An error occurred, please try again later’

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
YouTube showing error occurred

When you visit YouTube site and attempt to play a video on it, it won’t  instead the video player throws the error ‘An error occurred, please try again later’, let us see how we can make the video to play […]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
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Snagit image conversion wizard with addition of .snag files

How to batch Convert SNAG files to PNG Image format?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Snagit image conversion wizard with addition of .snag files

Snagit automatically saves unsaved capture as a SNAG file in DataStore folder, here is the full path to it : C:UsersusernameAppDataLocalTechSmithSnagitDataStore. The advantage with .SNAG file format -you can only open this file in Snagit Editor on Windows -is it […]

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How to
Snagit Manage Profiles dialog

How to Create a Shortcut for Image Profile in Snagit 12?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Snagit Manage Profiles dialog

Assigning hotkeys for profiles in Snagit. Have you upgraded to Snagit 12? If you’re already using Snagit 11 version on your computer, then you’ll find the new capture method quite annoying. One click has been replaced with a new capture […]

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