Author: Trisha

Google Chrome is a slim, fast and secure browser. But when you download a file using Google Chrome, it does not prompt you and starts downloading the file. You can change this default behavior and make Google Chrome ask for a folder to save the file in.

When you search Yahoo! for a term or phrase, it lists all the results. It may list offensive or sexually explicit results too. You can change settings in Yahoo! search engine to filter such results.

Yahoo! offers a robust email solution for free to everyone. All you have to do is sign up for the free email account. Here is how you can sign up for their free email service.

Browser add-ons are small tools or programs that change the way a web page appears in Internet Explorer. They may also add some functionality to Internet Explorer which was not previously present. You can manage Internet Explorer add-ons to enable or disable them.

Sometimes when installing software, some extra items like toolbars and other plugins get installed in Mozilla Firefox. But you can remove these unwanted toolbars easily as explained in this article.

You are going to format your computer but are afraid you would lose all the Mozilla Firefox settings? You can backup Firefox settings and bookmarks and later restore them using this procedure. This method is very useful when re-installing Windows. You can backup Firefox settings including, add-ons, bookmarks, cookies and saved passwords.

Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source email client for Windows and Linux from the same community that develops Mozilla Firefox. You can download a free copy of Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird allows easy configuration with many email services. This article describes how you can configure your Gmail POP account in Thunderbird.

Microsoft offers free Windows Live Mail for Windows XP, Vista and 7. In Windows Vista it comes pre-installed but in Windows XP and 7, you have to download it separately. Installing Windows Live Mail is very easy. Once you have installed, you can configure it to use an email account. This article discusses how to configure an Gmail (Google Mail) account in Windows Live Mail. The procedure is explained for Windows 7 but it is same for all Windows platforms.

When you click on a PDF file link on a web page, the PDF file starts to open in the web browser itself. If the file is too big, your browser hangs while the PDF file is being downloaded. If you do not like this default behavior, you can change it in the options so that when you click on a PDF link, the file is not opened in the browser but the default associated program (Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader).

Google’s free email service – Gmail, filters all spam automatically and sends the spam to a folder labeled Spam. Gmail offers no settings to disable or enable this behavior. But you can disable the spam filtering using a filter trick as described in this article.