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Opera

Re-enable Disabled WebSockets in Opera 11

December 10, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you don’t know WebSockets are disabled by Opera and Firefox for their Opera 11 and Firefox 4 major releases as vulnerabilities found in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Opera, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Beta, disable, enable, Opera 11, WebSockets
How to

How to disable Building Font Cache Dialog of VLC Player

December 5, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered the purpose of Building Font Cache dialog box shown by VLC Player that appears whenever you try to play a media file, this … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: building font cache, building font cache in vlc, dialog, disable, vlc player
How to

How to disable Visual Mouse Gestures in Opera 11

November 23, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Opera support mouse gestures, Opera 11 beta even better offers UI for these mouse gestures aka Visual mouse gestures, highlights mouse paths and helps … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Opera, Tips and Tricks Tagged: disable, disable visual mouse gestures, Opera 11, Opera 11 Beta, Visual mouse gestures
How to

How to Turn off/disable Protected Mode in Adobe Reader X [Updated]

November 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Protected Mode in Adobe Reader X is enabled by default and malicious PDF documents can’t launch arbitrary executable files or write to system directories … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader X, disable, disable protected mode, Protected Mode, turn off, turn off protected mode
Tips and Tricks

Find where Your Windows 7 Theme’s Wallpapers were Photographed

November 12, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Sometimes, we won’t clearly observe the simple things those are even in front of us, such is the case with windows 7 themes wallpapers, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks Tagged: location, wallpapers, Widnows 7, windows 7 themes
Firefox

How to Disable Direct2D in Firefox?

October 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Direct2D is enabled by default in latest Firefox 4 beta as well as in its final version also, but there will be problems faced … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Direct2D, disable, disable Direct2D, Firefox 4, GPU hardware acceleration, hardware acceleration, turn off
Tips and Tricks

Manually downloading Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware definitions to Update Malwarebytes Offline

September 27, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Malwarebytes is the best free anti-malware that helps user in removing viruses, Trojans, spywares, especially this application is good at getting rid of rogue … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks Tagged: definitions, download malwarebytes definitions manually, Malwarebytes anti-malware, manually, update, update malwarebytes offline
How to

How to Downgrade from IE9 to IE8

September 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you’ve recently installed Internet Explorer 9  Beta on your computer, you may have come to know that you can no longer access IE8, IE9 … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Internet Explorer, Tips and Tricks Tagged: downgrade, downgrade from IE9 to IE8, downgrade to IE8 from IE9, IE8, IE9, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer

Enable Menu bar in IE9 by default & Move it above the Navigation bar

September 19, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Menu bar in IE9 not shown by default, users need to press Alt button on keyboard  to access it, if you are one of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Internet Explorer, Tips and Tricks Tagged: enable menu bar, IE9, Internet Explorer 9, menu bar, menu bar on top, navigation bar
Tips and Tricks

Hide Contacts and Tasks links Permanently in Gmail

August 24, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Lot of users not liked the new Gmail layout and Gmail also not allows to permanently hide Contacts and Tasks links under Mail link, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks Tagged: Gmail, Gmail new layout, hide contacts and tasks in Gmail, minimize Contacts and tasks, permanently
How to

How to Update Foxit Reader

August 6, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Its always recommended to update your applications to their latest versions specially if you are using PDF Reader all PDF Readers does release security … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: download Foxit Reader Updates, Foxit Reader, Foxit Reader update, installing Foxit Reader updates, update, updating Foxit Reader
Tips and Tricks

Uses of “ Hunter Mode” in Revo Uninstaller

August 2, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Revo Uninstaller is a very useful free advanced uninstaller allows removing the leftover entries of applications uninstalled using built-in uninstallers. But do you know … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks Tagged: Hunter Mode, Hunter mode in Revo Uninstaller, Revo Uninstaller, switch off hunter mode, Use of hunter mode, use of hunter mode in revo uninstaller
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