New Microsoft Edge: Translation and Spell Checking arrives
One of the features that I missed a lot when I took Microsoft's new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser to the test was support for translations and spell che
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Upgrade blocks for Windows 10 May 2019 Update
Microsoft plans to release the May 2019 Update for Windows 10 at the end of May 2019.
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Google Docs displays "unsupported browser" for Chromium Edge
Users of the Chromium-based Edge browser that access Google Docs in the browser receive an "unsupported browser" notification when they open any document using
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Windows 10 Pro 1903 still comes with crapware by default
When you install Windows 10 from scratch, some Universal Platform applications do get installed by default or at least linked in the Start Menu.
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Classic Firefox and Firefox fork launcher
Menu_Launcher4multiple_FF is a free batch file for Windows to run different Firefox versions and forks using a shared user profile or different profiles.
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New mobile Phishing Method using fake address bar and scroll locking
Phishing, the attempt to steal important data such as login information, passwords, or credit card numbers from unsuspecting users, is still a major threat on t
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nvdisplay.container.exe causing high CPU load
High CPU usage by nvdisplay.
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Cloudflare Browser Check: Test Secure DNS, DNSSEC, TLS 1.3 and ECH
The Cloudflare Browser Check is a free test page at cloudflare.
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Mozilla to drop IRC as main communications platform
Mozilla plans to drop IRC as a main communications platform and the server infrastructure that powers IRC.
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Control Windows Updates with Sledgehammer (formerly WUMT Wrapper Script)
Windows Update, or more precisely maintaining full control over the update behavior of the Windows operating system, was the topic of many articles here on this
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How to reset the Screenshots counter on Windows 10
Microsoft improved the screenshot taking functionality of Windows in Windows 10 significantly.
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Tab Muter Extension: Mute individual Tabs in Google Chrome
Tab Muter is a Chrome extension that restores the ability to mute individual audio-playing tabs, a feature removed from native Chrome, allowing granular, one-cl
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The future of Firefox for Android
Mozilla is working on a new mobile browser for Android called Fenix.
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Install the Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 Home
The upcoming feature update for Windows 10, the May 2019 Update or Windows 10 version 1903, includes a new feature called Windows Sandbox.
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Microsoft bumps minimum Windows 10 storage requirement to 32 Gigabytes
Starting with Windows 10 version 1903, Windows 10 has a minimum storage requirement of 32 Gigabytes on the desktop.
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Windows 10 updates KB4493437, KB4493440, KB4493436 and KB4493473 arrive a week late
Better late than never, I guess.
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Microsoft updates Security Baseline: drops password expiration
Microsoft published a draft of the security baseline for Windows 10 version 1903, the May 2019 Update, and Windows Server 2019 (v1903).
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Install VMware Tools Greyed Out: How to Fix It
"Install VMware Tools" is greyed out when VMware cannot mount the Tools installer into the guest.
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Boostaler browser extension extends caching periods to speed up browsing
Boostaler is a browser extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers that is designed to speed up web browsing by extending cache periods.
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UnLazy for Firefox disables lazy loading
UnLazy is a browser extension for the Firefox web browser that attempts to disable lazy loading on any website that you load in the browser.
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Firefox not remembering the last window size? This may fix it!
Some months ago, I started to notice that the Firefox web browser was not remembering its window size when closed and reopened.
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MoviePrint: create video thumbnail summaries
MoviePrint is a free open source program for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh systems that creates thumbnail summaries of any number of video files.
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Google deprecates Chrome Data Saver extension for the desktop
Google will deprecate the Data Saver extension for desktop versions of the Chrome web browser when the stable version hits version 74; the company renamed Data
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Chrome 74 Stable is out with Dark Mode and Lazy Loading support
Google released Google Chrome 74 to the Stable channel of the web browser on April 23, 2019.
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Missing Chrome's "Use a Prediction Service" Setting?
If you have upgraded Google Chrome to the newest stable version, version 73, and checked the preferences and settings, you may have noticed that the preference
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It looks as if Microsoft Paint is not going anywhere anytime soon
Microsoft Paint, the decades-old basic image editor of the Windows operating system won't go anywhere, anytime soon it appears.
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Skyload Chrome extension to download music and video
Skyload is a browser extension designed to download music and videos from a wide variety of websites and social media platforms.
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Promo Image Resizer: Resize images for social media
Image Resizer by Promo is a free online service that takes source images or photos and turns them into perfectly sized images for social media.
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Windows 10's Set feature is Dead, it appears
Remember the Sets feature that Microsoft revealed back in 2018 and even included in some Insider Builds back then? That feature seems to be dead and buried even
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Fix "What needs your attention" error when upgrading to Windows 10 May 2019 Update
Windows 10 version 1903, the May 2019 Update, has not been released officially.
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Set up a local account if you want a custom user folder name
Windows administrators and users who set up new accounts on devices running the Windows 10 operating system have two main choices when it comes to that: they ma
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Firefox 68: Picture in Picture mode for Video
Mozilla plans to introduce support for a picture in picture mode (PiP) in the organization's Firefox web browser in Firefox 68.
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New Microsoft Edge may change User Agent automatically
Microsoft's upcoming Chromium-based web browser Microsoft Edge may change the user agent automatically based on the visited site.
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.NET Framework 4.8 and 4.8.1 Offline Installer Download
Microsoft offers offline installers for .
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Mozilla plans to enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default in Firefox
A new Bleeping Computer report by Lawrence Abrams suggests that Mozilla plans to enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by default in the Firefox browser.
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Add McAfee products to the list of security products that don't play well with latest Windows patches
When Microsoft released the monthly cumulative updates for Windows 7, Windows 8.
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IntelTechnologyAccessService.exe taking up all the memory? Here is a fix
Recently, I noticed that a process called IntelTechnologyAccessService.
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8 ways in which Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is better than Google Chrome
Microsoft's Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser has not been released yet as a stable version; the preview versions that Microsoft released, Microsoft Edg
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Google to present browser and search choices to EU Android users
Deja Vu, anyone? Remember when Microsoft had to include a browser ballot screen in the company's Windows operating system for users from the European Union?Now
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Ubuntu 19.04 is out
The final version of the Linux distribution Ubuntu 19.
