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Home›Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

222 articles

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 […]

Posted in: 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
Script Error in Foxit Reader

How to Fix Foxit Reader’s Script Error in Windows 8.1

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Script Error in Foxit Reader

When you launch Foxit Reader, by default it shows start page and advertisements on startup unless you’ve disabled them in Preferences, if you try to open Foxit PDF Reader in recently released Windows 8.1 you can get script error saying […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
How to
Google Earth Plugin

How to Remove Google Earth Plugin?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Earth Plugin

Unless you install Google Earth Plugin only you won’t notice it in installed Programs list in  Control Panel, but if you also install Google Earth application in your computer then you can notice Google Earth uninstall option but not for […]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Ask toolbar installed in Chrome

Java Installed Ask toolbar and TBNotifier.exe can be easily Removed

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Ask toolbar installed in Chrome

During the install of Java if you don’t pay attention Ask toolbar bundled by Oracle will be added to Chrome and Ask will be set as default search provider in Google browser. You can notice TBNotifier.exe process with description Ask […]

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Troubleshooting
Snagit text capture error

Why Snagit is showing unable to capture this text Error Dialog?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Snagit text capture error

Snagit, popular Screen Capture tool from TechSmith has recently version 11.3 released with Google Drive integration and support for Chrome and Windows 8.1. This tool lets you capture image, video, text from entire screen, selected window, region, or scrolling window. […]

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How to
Ad Aware Security Toolbar

How to Uninstall Ad-Aware Security Toolbar?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Ad Aware Security Toolbar

When you install Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware Free Antivirus in your computer and if you don’t pay attention during setup it will install ‘Ad-Aware Security Toolbar’ for web protection and makes Lavasoft SecureSearch as default search provider, New tabs for Chrome, Firefox […]

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Troubleshooting
Foxit Reader Uninstall error

Troubleshooting Foxit Reader Uninstall Issues

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Foxit Reader Uninstall error

When you try to uninstall Foxit Reader from Control Panel you can’t instead you may get Error ‘ File C:Program FilesFoxit SoftwareFoxit Readerunins000.dat’ could not be opened. Cannot uninstall. Error 32: The Process cannot access the file because it is […]

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Google Chrome
Chrome with and without apps icon on bookmarks bar

Add Missing Apps Icon back to Chrome Bookmarks bar

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Chrome with and without apps icon on bookmarks bar

Recently Google has enabled redesigned New Tab Page for Chrome by adding its logo and search bar at center. Thumbnails for most visited sites fetched from your history appears below search bar. And Apps shortcut which takes you to Chrome://apps […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
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