Tag: feature

Disable Autorun

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Removable USB/thumb drives use the Autorun feature to load files when the drives are plugged into the USB port. Malware exploits the Autorun feature to spread from thumb drive to PC. Disable the autorun feature to prevent malware from spreading.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 2 minutes
Here’s How:

The easiest and most effective means [...]

Finance Software

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It is through personal finance that people are able to prepare individual budgets distributed by income from savings, expenses and debt amortization.
Maintain documentation of personal finances is very important, but many people break the course when done manually.
Use of personal finance software has helped many of them spend a better life and more comfortable that [...]

Internet Explorer is Sooooo Slow

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One day, you’re surfing the Internet just fine. The next day, Internet Explorer has slowed to a crawl. Sometimes, many web sites display “Page cannot be displayed” or “Cannot find server” error messages. With just a bit of housekeeping, you can resolve Internet Explorer performance issues and keep them from happening in the future.
1. How [...]

Shareware: efficient way of marketing software

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Considered for a long time as a selling technique of young software developers, shareware is a software marketing method that starts gaining ground with big companies too.
The idea behind shareware distribution is letting clients try the software before buying the full version, by downloading a trial version from your website. There are several types of [...]

Remove GoogleUpdate.exe

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Google Chrome, Google Lively, Google Earth, and an untold number of other Google applications may install an update mechanism named googleupdate.exe, googleupdater.exe, or something similar. The googleupdate may continually attempt to access the Internet without requesting permission and without providing an option to disable it. This behavior may persist even after the parent application has [...]