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How to

How to disable or remove Bingsurrogate.exe?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Bing Bar aka Bing Toolbar in your computer it will be installed for Internet Explorer and you can notice processes related to it running in Task Manager under Processes tab when Internet Explorer is open, they’ll vanish […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome

How to add removed Chrome App Launcher to Taskbar?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Chrome App Launcher gives quick access to your favorite apps and launches them in their own separate windows outside Chrome browser similar to desktop apps. App Launcher is currently available for Windows and Mac, in Windows to get it you […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks
AVG pop up notification

Disable ‘AVG Protected you from several threats recently’ Notification

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
AVG pop up notification

AVG Antivirus Free when installed in your computer does show boot time improvement notifications and AVG advisor notifications unless you’ve already configured its Settings not to display them. Another notification that pops up for every 30 days or for first […]

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How to
Picasa Photo Viewer configuration

How to disable Picasa that makes Windows Photo Viewer Default again

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Picasa Photo Viewer configuration

Windows Photo Viewer is the default program in Windows 7 to view Photos, whenever you double click on a photo in your hard drive it will be opened by Windows Photo Viewer. When you install Picasa in Windows, Picasa Photo […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Windows
Google Chrome
Chrome with and without apps icon on bookmarks bar

Add Missing Apps Icon back to Chrome Bookmarks bar

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Chrome with and without apps icon on bookmarks bar

Recently Google has enabled redesigned New Tab Page for Chrome by adding its logo and search bar at center. Thumbnails for most visited sites fetched from your history appears below search bar. And Apps shortcut which takes you to Chrome://apps […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
Chrome import bookmark and settings

How to Export Chrome bookmarks to HTML file and import them later

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome import bookmark and settings

If you want to uninstall Chrome completely to do a fresh install, then you may want to export all bookmarks you saved in browser to HTML file so that after reinstalling Chrome you can import them from same file. We’ve […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
How to
AdobeARM.exe process

You can disable AdobeARM.exe but not the reader_sl.exe, Why?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
AdobeARM.exe process

When you install Adobe Reader XI in your computer two processes related to it AdobeARM.exe and reader_sl.exe are automatically set to run at startup, you can notice them running under Processes tab in Task Manager. Let us see more details […]

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How to disable Picasa’s Screen Capture if you use Snagit?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

After installing Picasa on Windows, when you press ‘Print Screen’ key on keyboard screenshots will be saved to ‘Screen Captures’ folder. What if you’re already using Snagit or other screen capturing program before Picasa install and you don’t want Picasa […]

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Firefox

How to Enable Add-on Bar in Firefox Australis

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With Firefox 4, Mozilla has introduced Add-on Bar, new menu and ditched Status bar. While Add-on Bar that appears at bottom of Firefox window if enabled by you is for the placement of Add-on icons. It has been removed in […]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
How to
Script Error in Foxit Reader

How to Fix Foxit Reader’s Script Error in Windows 8.1

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Script Error in Foxit Reader

When you launch Foxit Reader, by default it shows start page and advertisements on startup unless you’ve disabled them in Preferences, if you try to open Foxit PDF Reader in recently released Windows 8.1 you can get script error saying […]

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Tips and Tricks
Gmail Settings images

It makes Sense to Set Gmail to Ask before Showing Images on Slower Connections

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Gmail Settings images

Gmail has announced they’ll load images in messages automatically without you need to click ‘Display images below’ link by storing images in their Google Image proxy servers. Before that, Gmail not showed images automatically unless you’ve selected always display images […]

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Tips and Tricks
RealPlayer in Private Mode

RealPlayer hides Videos You download and watch in Private Mode

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
RealPlayer in Private Mode

RealPlayer that lets you play, download and bookmark videos is available in free and paid versions. Free version with basic features that displays annoying ads offers useful ‘Private Mode’. When you turn on this mode, videos downloaded using RealDownloader will […]

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