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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
How to
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 […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
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 […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
How to
Yahoo mail showing Preview of link for new message

How to disable Link Preview in Yahoo Mail?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Yahoo mail showing Preview of link for new message

You might have not known about Link Preview feature in Yahoo Mail unless you’ve got an email from someone with a link in your account on the web. To try out this feature, compose a new message and paste a […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
How to
Arsmsvc.exe process running in Task Manager

How to disable or Stop armsvc.exe of Adobe Reader?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Arsmsvc.exe process running in Task Manager

We’ve already covered about Adobe Reader processes AdobeARM.exe and reader_sl.exe, these run on startup automatically. armsvc.exe is another process related to the Adobe PDF Program, which will be used when needed by Updater if you’ve enabled automatic updates for the […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to install Avira Free Antivirus Offline?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

How to install Avira Free Antivirus without Avira Client and Online Essentials?, this article answers that question. When you initiate Avira Free Antivirus  download from its official website page, a small setup file will be downloaded, when you run it,  […]

Posted in: How to, Security, Tips and Tricks
How to
Select Default PDF Handler Adobe Reader

How to make Adobe Reader as Default PDF Handler in Windows?

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Select Default PDF Handler Adobe Reader

Want to set Adobe Reader as default PDF Reader in Windows? Here is how you can do it. We’ve covered how to make Foxit Reader application as default for handling PDF files in Windows, if you want to make Adobe’s […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
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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 […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
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.  […]

Posted in: Security, Tips and Tricks
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 […]

Posted in: News, Tips and Tricks
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 […]

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