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222 articles

Google Chrome

Fix: ‘There was a problem with the Google Earth Plugin..’

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You can explore Google Earth in three ways: on Desktop, Web and Mobile. You can install it’s application on Windows, Mac and Linux, on Web browsers- Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer- you can install Google Earth plug-in, on Android and […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, 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. […]

Posted in: Troubleshooting
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 […]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
Security
CCleaner Startup section

Avast Prevents CCleaner from Managing Windows Startup Items

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCleaner Startup section

CCleaner has the ability to enable, delete or disable startup programs (including of browsers) in Windows, some Avast users on 64-bit Windows 7 getting ‘access denied’ errors whey trying to do those things even though they’re logged in and running […]

Posted in: Security, Troubleshooting
How to
LiveUpdate folder

How to disable IObit’s LiveUpdate.exe Process?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
LiveUpdate folder

When you install any one of IObit programs such as Advanced SystemCare, Uninstaller and other LiveUpdate component -IObit product updater that-checks periodically for program updates and notifies you when available – gets installed and registers itself in Windows as a […]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
Voice Search error

Fix Chrome is Showing ‘Voice search has been turned off. Details’ Error

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Voice Search error

With Google Voice search in Chrome, you can able to speak to Google by saying some search queries without typing anything from your keyboard and Google talks back to you with answers or results. Provided you need to have microphone […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
Google Chrome preferences file is corrupt or invalid error

Fix Google Chrome’s ‘your preferences file is corrupt or invalid’ error

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Chrome preferences file is corrupt or invalid error

Google Chrome browser sometimes gets you into trouble by showing errors that can be fixed and some can’t. You likely to experience most errors on development builds like Canary or dev. but its also not true, stable users also ran […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting
How to
Panda Security Toolbar

How to Uninstall Panda Security Toolbar and Panda URL Filtering from your computer?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Panda Security Toolbar

Users get most annoyed with toolbars that not only occupy space on browser but also changes browser search engine, home page and new tab page, sometimes this can happen without user consent also. When you install Panda Cloud Antivirus on […]

Posted in: How to, Troubleshooting
News

Download “KB2902864” Hotfix to Remove “Windows 8.1 SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly” Watermark

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released KB2902864 update to remove “Windows 8.1 SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly” watermark from desktop wallpaper in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Affected users can download and install the update. After applying the update, you need to […]

Posted in: News, Troubleshooting
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