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CCEnhancer remove custom cleaning rules added to CCleaner

How to Remove new program entries added by CCEnhancer to CCleaner

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCEnhancer remove custom cleaning rules added to CCleaner

How to Uninstall CCEnhancer?. CCEnhancer (CCE) is a freeware portable tool that expands CCleaner cleaning capabilities by adding support for more programs. This tool does that by adding rules (these are fetched from the Piriform support forum and other sources) and […]

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Opera
Opera Power User Settings welcome dialog

Use Konami Code to Enable Power User Settings in Opera

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera Power User Settings welcome dialog

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
Instup.exe Avast Antivirus installer running on Task Manager

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

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Instup.exe Avast Antivirus installer running on Task Manager

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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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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How to
Malwarebytes Explorer Context Menu Entry setting

How to Add Scan Option for Malwarebytes v2.0 in the Explorer Right Click Menu

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Malwarebytes Explorer Context Menu Entry setting

‘Scan with Malwarebytes anti-Malware’ Missing on the context menu? Find out how to fix that. When you right click on any file in Windows Explorer, in the previous versions before introducing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0, there is option for scanning with […]

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How to
NAV Performance Alert

How to disable or turn off Performance Alerts Shown by Norton Antivirus?

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
NAV Performance Alert

Don’t want to be annoyed by Performance Alerts shown by Norton Antivirus?, you can easily deactivate them. Remember AVG advisor notifications? -For instance, all of a sudden a notification pops up saying Firefox is using more memory, AVG recommends to […]

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Security
MBAM chameleon zip file

Where to download Malwarebytes Chameleon File?

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
MBAM chameleon zip file

Can’t install or run Malwarebytes on an infected system, then Chameleon file will let you do that. We’ve already covered what is Malwarebytes Chameleon technology and how it helps to run MABM on a system that was affected with malware.  […]

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News

Dropbox now offering the option to disable ‘Move to Dropbox’ Context Menu Item

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

We’ve already covered how to remove ‘Move to Dropbox’ entry on the Windows Context menu (quite a long tutorial though), now Cloud backup provider Dropbox, itself providing that option in testing build 2.9.44. New Dropbox Experimental Build Available with Streaming […]

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Google Chrome
Youtube Default HTML5 Player

Google makes HTML5 Player default for Playing Videos on YouTube in Chrome

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Youtube Default HTML5 Player

Today if you visit YouTube.com and play any video in the Chrome browser, it will be played by HTML5 Player instead of Flash, this applies to all videos in the popular video sharing site and you simply can’t switch to […]

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How to
Snagit capture window

How to disable Capture Window (formerly OneClick) of Snagit 12?

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Snagit capture window

Remember OneClick in Snagit 11 -which lets you access Snagit and its profiles quickly from the desktop – this has been changed to Capture Window in Snagit 12. Snagit Capture Window, similar to OneClick docks on top of the screen […]

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How to disable or remove AutoUpdate.exe and Scheduler.exe?

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install IObit’s Driver Booster program on your computer and if you leave that program alone without removing after the knowing status of drivers installed (or updating them), it automatically runs two processes named AutoUpdate.exe and Scheduler.exe on startup. […]

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