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How to Turn Off Bitdefender SafePay If you don’t need It [Updated]

Posted by Techdows on Jul 15th, 2013

If you don’t need Safepay feature in Bitdefender Internet Security 2013/2014, you can easily disable it. By default, setting for Bitdefender Safepay browser- security feature which lets you browse banking websites in virtual environment... More »

How to Disable or Turn off Views on Quora

Posted by Techdows on Aug 2nd, 2012

Quora has introduced Views feature for their Q&A site that lets more contributors know how many and who are read their content, instead of opt-in Quora enabled Views by default and can be privacy concern for most of the users.... More »

How to Disable or Remove Advanced SystemCare Surfing Protection Feature and Add-ons from Browsers

Posted by Techdows on Jul 18th, 2012

Just now we’ve covered that the first beta of Advanced SystemCare 6 installs ASC surfing Protection add-on for browsers like Firefox, Chrome and IE automatically without user permission, we’re following up that post with how... More »

How to Disable/turn off Search Suggestions in Opera 12’s Address Bar

Posted by Techdows on Apr 12th, 2012

Opera introduced Search Suggestions for Opera 12 which appears drop down in the address field when you start typing, this is annoying for some Opera users who not got used to this, you can turn off Google search suggestions in Opera’s... More »

How to Disable or Turn off Windows Defender in Windows 8

Posted by Techdows on Apr 8th, 2012

There is no MSE in Windows 8, it is not compatible in Windows 8 that’s why Microsoft merged MSE with Windows Defender. Now Windows Defender offers same malware protection as that of Microsoft Security Essentials. If you want to install... More »

How to Turn off/disable Personalized Google+ Search Results in Google

Posted by Techdows on Jan 12th, 2012

Google offers personalized search results by default for everyone, with recent launch of Google+ , they want you to access all private information you put on Google+ such as photos and posts in Google search results, of course, you... More »

Disable or Turn off Windows Error Recovery Screen on Startup in Windows 7

Posted by Techdows on Mar 29th, 2011

Whenever the Power goes off, since Your Computer wasn’t shut down properly, hence the Windows Error Recovery screen appears when you start your PC next time during the boot with the options to – “launch startup repair”,... More »

Turn off or Disable Avast’s WebRep Safety Ratings for Websites and Search Results

Posted by Techdows on Feb 5th, 2011

We’ve covered about Avast WebRep module which shows safety ratings for websites and search results in Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. WebRep installs as a plug-in for Firefox and IE browsers with install of Avast 6. If... More »

How to Turn off Avast’s Voice Notifications and its Animated Tray Icon

Posted by Techdows on Feb 1st, 2011

Avast introduced voice notifications for its Avast 5 version for events, such as when virus database was automatically updated, or potentially harmful file is detected. These voice over popups are annoying, its good to know about... More »

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

Posted by Techdows on Nov 19th, 2010

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 or the Windows registry inside sandboxed layer. Let us take a look at how to... More »

How to Enable and Disable Google Instant Previews

Posted by Techdows on Nov 10th, 2010

Have you tried Google Instant Previews , let me tell you Google Instant Previews is no way related to Google Instant search that means turning off Google Instant won’t disable Google Instant Previews. Enabling Google Instant Previews Google... More »

Turning off Desktop Notifications from Chrome Extensions like Chromed Bird and others

Posted by Techdows on Nov 4th, 2010

From Chrome 5 onwards Google added support for desktop notifications for extensions. These notifications shown by extensions can be useful, at times they turned out to be distracting and annoying. There are popular Chrome extensions ... More »

How to turn off or disable Facebook Profile Search and Liked Results in Bing

Posted by Techdows on Nov 2nd, 2010

Bing partnered with Facebook to bring more personalized results for Facebook users. Bing is currently rolling out Facebook profile search and liked results features in their search results as part of the deal as announced in their... More »

Turning off Google’s Location based Customized Search Results

Posted by Techdows on Oct 22nd, 2010

Few days back Google announced that they are changing location setting to left-hand side to search results, this new Google interface is now live and you can see your location settings on left sidebar in Google search results and you... More »

How to Disable Direct2D in Firefox?

Posted by Techdows on Oct 19th, 2010

Direct2D is enabled by default in latest Firefox 4 beta as well as in its final version also, but there will be problems faced by users with GPU hardware acceleration turned on by default in the browser such as fonts do not render... More »

Turn off Conversation View in Gmail

Posted by Techdows on Sep 29th, 2010

Gmail organizes mail into conversations which is grouping of all replies with original message where as other email systems unlike to Gmail shows responses as separate messages in your inbox. In Gmail replies to replies (and replies... More »

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