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Firefox
Firefox showing all Black screen

Fix: Firefox Nightly Shows Black Screen after installing the Update

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox showing all Black screen

Doesn’t get any worse than this, latest update for Firefox 32 Nightly spoiled the browser, after installing the update and restart, it showed a black screen with no menus (you can’t access anything, everything is black), at the end you’ve […]

Posted in: Firefox, Troubleshooting
News

Fix for Ad-Aware Definition Files Update Issue

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Currently Ad-Aware users not able to update Definition files, here is the way to fix that manually until Lavasoft finds the solution for it. Navigate to the folder – C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-Aware AntivirusAntimalware Engine2.6.0.0Plugins – in your computer, select all files […]

Posted in: News, Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Malwarebytes stoppped working error dialog

Fix ‘Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has stopped working’

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Malwarebytes stoppped working error dialog

When you try to run Malwarebytes you may receive an error dialog showing ‘Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has stopped working’ and Windows suggest to check online for a solution and close the program or Close the program, problem details shown below doesn’t […]

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Troubleshooting

Fix Avast’s ‘HTMLayout.dll can not be loaded properly to Start GUI’ [Updated]

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you attempt to install or Uninstall  Avast you may get HTMlayout.dll error and antivirus installation /uninstallation stops, let us see how to fix this. The error is ‘HTMLayout.dll cannot be loaded properly to start GUI. Therefore process cannot continue.’ […]

Posted in: Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
Sync stopped working error

Fix Chrome’s ‘Oops, Sync has stopped working’ error

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Sync stopped working error

If you’re using Chrome browser on your computer and signed into your Google account to sync and access bookmarks, apps, extensions, history, passwords, open tabs and other data on other devices you can get error when you visit browser settings […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
Suspicious extensions disabled message

Fix Chrome’s ‘Suspicious extensions disabled’

February 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Suspicious extensions disabled message

Its happening, Chrome stable and beta channels started disabling external extensions installed by third-party programs in Windows, these extensions once disabled, are grayed out and can’t be enabled like before. Few months back, Google said from January 2014 onwards, it […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
AVPTool installation failed error

Fix: AVPTool Installation failed error followed by BSOD after restart with Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool

February 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
AVPTool installation failed error

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool has another name AVPTool. When you try to install Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (KVRT) you can get error dialog ‘AVPTool Installation failed: Please try to reboot your computer. Error message is Client register error: -2147024894′. When […]

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How to
AVG Secure Search Update .exe process

How to remove AVG-Secure-Search-Update-1213b.exe?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
AVG Secure Search Update .exe process

If you’ve installed AVG Free Antivirus in your computer, after few days of using it you may notice AVG-Secure-Search-Update-1231b.exe running under processes list in Task Manager. What happened? AVG has silently downloaded that update and not installed in your computer, […]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
How to
McAfee Securty Scan Plus

How to Uninstall Useless McAfee Security Scan Plus?

January 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
McAfee Securty Scan Plus

Before downloading Adobe products such as Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash Player from their website if you don’t pay attention, along with Adobe application McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSSP) also gets downloaded and installed on your computer. MSSP is not […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
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 […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
Firefox
The bookmarks and system will not be functional

Fix Firefox’s Error ‘The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because ..’

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
The bookmarks and system will not be functional

When you open Firefox it may show error below navigation toolbar with the message’ The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of Firefox’s files is in use by another application. Some security software can cause this […]

Posted in: Firefox, Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
WinRAR install error

Fix ‘Cannot create WinRAR.exe’, Error ‘Some files Could not be created..’

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
WinRAR install error

When you try to install WinRAR on your computer you can’t and you can notice program setup  can’t create WinRAR.exe while extracting files and thus shows Error ‘Some files could not be created. Please close all applications, reboot Windows and […]

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