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How to

How to Restore Default Settings for CCleaner

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Popular Crap Cleaning tool aka CCleaner from Piriform helps you not only clean temporary files in Windows but also protects your privacy by deleting browsers history and even more this tool allows to manage browser extensions and plugins as well.

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to Set Foxit Reader’s Zoom Level to 100% by Default for Every PDF Display

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments

We’ve already covered how to Set Default Zoom Level in Nitro PDF Reader to 100%, and by default Foxit Reader application on Windows sets default Zoom level for every PDF document to “Fit Width”, if you want that to be

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

How to Set Gmail as Default E-Mail Program in Firefox

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Applications panel

Gmail in Google Chrome already opens all email links by default, if you want Google mail to do the same in Firefox, then follow the steps mentioned below. Firefox uses Windows Operating System’s default email client like Thunderbird, Windows Live

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

How to Uninstall and Reinstall Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Windows features

We’ve already covered how to Uninstall IE10 in Windows 7 that gets back IE8/9 and in Windows 8, if you don’t like Internet Explorer 10 for the reasons like offering two versions: desktop and metro or modern UI or lack

Posted in: How to, Internet Explorer, Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks
CCleaner standard installer offering Google toolbar for Internet Explorer

What’s the Difference between CCleaner Slim and Standard Versions

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCleaner standard installer offering Google toolbar for Internet Explorer

You may not know this: Piriform actually offers two installable versions for CCleaner one is Standard other version is Slim. Standard version is offered with (Google) toolbar which you can opt-out and Slim is offered without toolbar and CCleaner Slim

Posted in: Tips and Tricks
How to
Google Drive Offline setup instructions

How to Setup Offline Access for Google Drive

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Google Drive Offline setup instructions

Google Drive now allows their users to view and edit their documents from drive.google.com in Chrome browser when they’re not connected to internet, but they need to complete two steps for that and these steps enables offline access to Google

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

Remove Chrome Notifications Icon in System Tray on Windows Easily

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Have you found Notifications icon shown by Chrome in the system tray annoying? instead of hiding it you can remove it easily. From few days Chrome Canary and dev. builds started showing “Chrome – Notifications” icon in notification area on

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to Test Anti-keylogger Protection Software?

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Is your Anti-keylogger software specially developed to encrypt keystrokes and prevent them from being reaching hands of hackers through legit/malicious keyloggers is really working or not? if you’ve any doubts you can find that out with legit, safe and free

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

How to Disable Firefox Health Report?

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Firefox 21 Beta has been released and available for testing with new features like three state of  UI for Do Not Track, ability to restore all removed thumbnails from most controversial New Tab Page and Health Report has been preliminarily

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Adding command line switch to Chrome executable path

Don’t like Chrome’s New Menus? Here is how to Disable Them

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Adding command line switch to Chrome executable path

When Google Chrome 26 was on dev.channel we’ve spotted the new context menus with white background and we’ve reported them here, which are now ported to stable channel. It seems most of users don’t like these white context menus, here

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
How to
Installing or uninstalling Avast Ad blocker

How to Install or Uninstall Avast Ad Blocker

March 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Installing or uninstalling Avast Ad blocker

This article guides you on how to install or remove Avast Ad Blocker from your Computer. Avast has released v8 with Ad Blocker, Software Updater, Browser cleanup tool and other new features where Ad Blocker is optional feature powered by

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks
MS Office
Office 2013 Trial extender program

Office 2013 Trial Can be Extended from 30 to 180 Days Legally

March 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Office 2013 Trial extender program

Have you installed Microsoft Office 2013 trial version on your computer? if the 30-day trial period is coming to an end and if you’re looking for ways to use it for more period of time legally  then you should know

Posted in: MS Office, Tips and Tricks
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