If you are upgrading an old system with Windows 8 or Windows 7, then there is a possibility that you may have to use an unsigned device driver. Problem is that Windows 8 allows only signed drivers. The severity of the problem escalates if the device driver is for an essential PC component like graphics card or audio device. Thanks to the freeware Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider, now you can load the unsigned drivers by signing them yourself.
Read moreBlock Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 7
Internet Explorer 11 is being delivered through Automatic Updates in Windows 7. But if you do not want to update to Internet Explorer 11, then you can block the Internet Explorer 11 from being installed in Windows 7. This is done through a blocker toolkit available from the Microsoft. After you install this block kit, Internet Explorer 11 would be blocked in the Automatic Updates of Windows 7.
Read morehubiC : 25GB Free Online Storage for All Platforms
hubiC is a new free online storage service powered by OVH, a France based web hosting company. They offer 25 GB of free online storage to everyone. You can access your account either through a web browser or through a platform specific client. They have clients for all the popular platforms including Windows, Android, iOS (iPhone and iPod), BlackBerry, Mac, Linux and Windows 8.
Read moreKeep Memory Usage Low in Firefox with Memory Fox
Firefox is a great web browser, but it eats your memory very fast. Even if I just keep Firefox idle with one or two sites open, its memory usage quadruples in only a few hours. This is why some people use tricks of restarting Firefox every 30 minutes or so, in order to reduce its memory consumption. But restarting Firefox periodically is not very practical. Instead, you can use the Memory Fox extension that strives to reduce the memory utilized by Firefox and Adobe Flash Player plugins.
Read moreCameroid : Use Webcam to Take Pictures Online
If you have a webcam and are connected to the Internet, then there are dozens of websites using which you can easily take your own picture through your webcam without needing any special software. Cameroid is such a website that allows you to snap your pictures with webcam along with adding more than fifty effects like filter, scenes, distort and frames.
Read moreJPEGCrops : Crop, Rotate and Resize JPEG Images Losslessly
Here is the dilemma that I had to face a few months ago – my digital camera captures pictures only in the 16:9 aspect ratio, but my color printer prints photos only on a 4×6 inches glossy page. The photographs, that my printer was printing out, had white space left-out unprinted on sides because of the unmatched aspect ratio. Then I discovered JPEGCrops – a freeware program that can crop your JPEG images losslessly (without losing any fine details) to fit on a certain aspect ratio.
Read moreConfigure Yahoo! Mail Account in Thunderbid
In a recent update Yahoo! has removed some restrictions on the use of Yahoo! Mail through email clients. So now you can access your Yahoo! Mail inbox through an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source email client for Windows and Linux. Thunderbird allows easy configuration with many email services including Yahoo! Mail. This article describes how you can configure your Yahoo! Mail account in Thunderbird.
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How to Disable BITS Service Permanently in Windows 8
After installing Windows 8 on my computer, I found the constant network activity from Windows services for accessing the Internet. It was very annoying as it was consuming so much of my Internet bandwidth. After some analysis I discovered that it was the Background Intelligence Transfer Service (BITS) that was responsible for this. This service automatically starts every time you restart Windows. So I figured out the following method to disable it permanently.
Read moreKaspersky Security Scan : Check Your PC for Security Risks
Kaspersky Security Scan is a free utility that can scan your system for all types of security risks. It can check your system for malware, vulnerabilities, presence of a protection software (antivirus) and more. It then generates a report about the found items that could be putting your system at risk. Even if you have an antivirus installed, you can use this utility to have a second opinion about your system security settings.
Read moreAdd Restart Options in Mozilla Firefox Browser
When you install a new add-on in Firefox, some of them want you to restart Firefox in order to finish the installation. But if you want to restart Firefox manually, then strangely enough, there is no restart option available in Firefox. Now you can add a restart option in Firefox browser using a new add-on called Restart. It adds many options in Firefox user interface which allow you to easily restart the Firefox browser.
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