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Agomo logo

How to Uninstall Agomo from your computer?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Agomo logo

Piriform has a new cloud product Agomo, powered by CCleaner and Defraggler technologies, it lets you optimize and maintain PCs remotely from browser. This service is still in private  beta, if you’ve already signed up for it and got invited, […]

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How to
VLC upgrade options

How to Upgrade VLC to Latest Version

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
VLC upgrade options

VLC Player which plays all media formats (also can convert video files to MP4) offers some special effects too for playing videos. If you’ve already installed this program in your computer, then to upgrade to its latest version visit videolan […]

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How to disable/hide Twitter’s Photo and Video Previews on Web

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Twitter has recently enabled Media -Photo and video- previews for its apps on Android and Phone and also for Twitter.com website on desktop. This means: Twitter automatically shows previews of Photos and videos in your timeline. Twitter allows to opt-out […]

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Firefox
Firefox Australis with menu bar

How to Enable Old Menu bar (not Menu button) in Firefox Australis

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Australis with menu bar

If you still don’t know the news: Firefox with new UI, Australis is available on Nightly build and we’ve covered Classic Theme Restorer add-on that restores its interface to classic one which also includes Menu button. But do you know […]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks

Revo Uninstaller Deletes Leftover Files to Recycle Bin

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Have you noticed or know this? When you uninstall a program using Revo Uninstaller’s Advanced or Moderate Mode (offers hunter Mode also) for your safety by default it deletes found leftover files and folders to Recycle Bin, you can find […]

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Firefox
Firefox cache2 folder

How to Clear or delete Firefox Cache2 Files?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox cache2 folder

Mozilla is offering new HTTP cache for Firefox from version 27 onwards -currently in Aurora  but disabled by default – you can enable this  backend cache feature by switching value of preference ‘browser.cache.use_new_backend’ to in ’1′ about:config, you don’t need […]

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Tips and Tricks
Google Docs Sheets Slides shortcuts

Install Google Drive to Clutter your Desktop with its Shortcuts

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Docs Sheets Slides shortcuts

When you install Google Drive on Windows it adds shortcuts for Google Drive folder, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides to your desktop. Not over yet, they also gets added to Google Drive folder on Start menu as well. […]

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Google Chrome
Adobe Reader plugin blocked from running in 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
Adobe Reader plugin blocked from running in Chrome

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 […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Chrome profile folder location Windows

Creating a New Profile for Google Chrome on Windows is Easy

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Chrome profile folder location Windows

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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CCleaner advanced old Windows installation

How to Clean Windows.old Folder in Windows 8.1 using CCleaner

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCleaner advanced old Windows installation

Instead of a clean install, if you’ve upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, then files and folders in Windows 8 would have been moved and kept in Windows.old folder. The files in this folder may come handy if upgraded […]

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Opera 18 with theme installed

How to install Themes in Opera 18+

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera 18 with theme installed

Before making the switch to Chromium/Blink, Opera browser powered by Presto engine supported the themes, but Chromium based Opera 15, 16 and 17 versions doesn’t support themes. Opera 18 which is currently on Next stream supports themes and installing them […]

Posted in: How to, Opera, Tips and Tricks
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Foxit Cloud Foxit Reader

How to Remove Foxit Reader’s Foxit Cloud Option and CloudReading Plugin?

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Foxit Cloud Foxit Reader

When you install Foxit Reader’s latest version 6.1.1  on your computer, it will install CloudReading plugin on your computer and adds Foxit Cloud option on File menu as a result of this. “CloudReading Plugin allows users to synchronise PDF files […]

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