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Prevent Google From showing your Profile name and Photo in their Ads

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Don’t want Google to show your profile photo and name in their ads?. Google has updated their terms of service with three changes and one important change related to users is with effect from Nov 11, 2013 onwards is Search […]

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Remove CCleaner Options from Recycle Bin’s Context Menu

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install CCleaner on your computer, it adds two options- “Run CCleaner” and “Open CCleaner”- to Recycle Bin’s context menu. If you forget to uncheck those during install on setup dialog, you can still remove them by visiting CCleaner […]

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Google Chrome

Chrome to Block Adobe Reader Plugin by Default, Here is How to always open PDF files with It

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Due to phasing out of support for NPAPI plugins, even though you’ve disabled Chrome native PDF viewer in Google Chrome, it still doesn’t allows to open PDF files inline through plugin of Adobe Reader installed on your computer. Chrome blocks […]

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Google Chrome

Creating a New Profile for Google Chrome on Windows is Easy

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

A browser profile contains all important data such as bookmarks, extensions, passwords and other user data and it is stored in a separate folder from browser installed directory. This profile folder won’t gets deleted when you uninstall browser. A corrupted […]

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Google Chrome

All About Chrome App Launcher: How to Enable it, Pin to Taskbar and Remove It

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You’re just one app away from getting Chrome App Launcher on Windows. When you install a new app from Chrome Web Store,  you’ll have the option to get App Launcher. When you sign into your Google Account, you can start […]

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How to

AVG 2014: How to Remove “Permanently Shred with AVG” Option from Context Menu

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

How to Remove AVG 2014’s File Shredder options from Windows Context menu. With AVG 2014, AVG Technologies has introduced File Shredder feature, you can see its option on File and folder context menus in Windows. Selecting this option permanently and […]

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How to

How to Create, Open and Identify RAR 5 Archive File

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Not figured out how to create RAR 5 archive?, or don’t know how to open it when you got one through email and how about recognizing it on your computer, this article is here to help you. After going through […]

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Firefox

Firefox 26+: How to Set a Particular Plugin to “Always Activate” or “Never Activate” State

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You can permanently activate or disable a plugin in Firefox. Till now except for Plugins like Java that have vulnerabilities and outdated versions of Flash Mozilla applies click to play blocklisted plugins, remaining all plugins in Firefox are automatically loaded […]

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How to

How to Disable opera_crashreporter.exe?

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Know how to stop crashreporter process of Opera from running. Have you noticed opera_crashreporter.exe process appears always running on Task Manager under Processes tab when Opera based Chromium is open. Its really annoying, instead Opera Crash Reporter should be running […]

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Google Chrome

How to Get Chromebook’s Guest Browsing in Google Chrome?

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

For Chromebook users Google offers Guest Browsing option which is similar to Incognito mode doesn’t saves browsing history when you close all open Guest windows, however all the files you downloaded will be preserved. Guest Browsing is enabled by default […]

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How to

How to Uninstall IE11 on Windows 7 that restores Previous Version to IE10/IE9/IE8

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Downgrading to IE10 or IE9 or IE8 from IE11 is easy. Yesterday, Microsoft has released Release Preview for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, this will be last Preview version and final version will be released this fall. If you’ve […]

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Google Chrome

How to Uninstall or Remove Yahoo Toolbar from Chrome

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Are you finding it difficult to remove Yahoo Toolbar in Chrome browser, this article is here to help you. Recently Yahoo has released new Yahoo Toolbar for Chrome, if you’ve installed it in Chrome unintentionally or intentionally to see the […]

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