Fix Windows Shell Experience Host process using too much memory/CPU
The Windows Shell Experience Host process may use quite a bit of memory or CPU when it is running.
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How to customize the Windows 10 Start Menu
Microsoft caved in and brought back a start menu in Windows 10 after it was replaced with the Start Screen interface in Windows 8.
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How to do a clean install of Windows 10
Microsoft released a tool yesterday that enables you to create installation media, an ISO image or USB files, so that you can use it to upgrade existing Windows
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How to download Windows 10 and create installation media
Windows 10 is finally available and while many users have seen their machines get upgraded automatically to the new operating system, some have reported errors
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Chrome to discard tabs if system memory runs low
Google has added a new discard tab feature to Chromium, the open source version of Google Chrome, that will discard tabs based on an algorithm when physical mem
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Scrolling in Firefox to get a lot better thanks to APZ
If you run a Nightly version of the Firefox web browser with E10s enabled, you may have noticed that scrolling and zooming improved after you have installed the
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Pale Moon 25.6 ships with anti-fingerprinting option
We talked about a fingerprinting technique using Canvas before and explained how companies make use of the feature supported by all modern web browsers to track
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What is Wi-Fi Sense and should you be using it?
It can be quite frustrating if friends, family members or colleagues want to access the Internet at your place.
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Google to remove Google+ from YouTube and other products
Google announced today that it made the decision to untie the bond between its social networking service Google+ and YouTube.
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Microsoft releases tool to block Windows 10 updates
One of the most controversial features of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system is its automatic update feature.
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KB3074681 highlights why mandatory updates on Windows 10 are not a good idea
If you run the latest insider build 10240 of Windows 10 you may have already received update KB3074681 which is a cumulative security update for Windows 10 that
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Textmarker: Mark text temporarily or permanently in Firefox
Textmarker is an easy to use browser extension for Firefox that allows you to mark text on web pages you visit temporarily or permanently.
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Valve fixed a Steam exploit that allowed anyone to take over accounts
Steam is a popular gaming platform that you use to buy and play games, use community features or a plethora of other features such as a virtual item marketplace
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Essential Software for Windows 10
The following guide lists essential software that you may want to install on a a Windows 10 system.
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QiPress: Keystroke Display Windows
QiPress is a portable, lightweight Windows utility that displays real-time keyboard presses and mouse clicks on your screen.
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OttoPlay for Chrome: watch online TV like regular TV
I have to admit that I'm not watching a lot of TV.
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Daminion is a professional photo, video and document management software
Daminion is a photo, video and document management solution for Windows that is available as a free standalone version and a commercial server version.
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LinkedIn makes it difficult to export contacts
LinkedIn modified the option to export contact information on the social networking site recently.
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Firefox Developer Toolbar commands that are useful to all users
The Developer Toolbar is a command driven console in the Firefox web browser that enables you to perform specific actions within the browser.
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Find out if your Windows PC is infected with Hacking Team malware
A leak pushed hundreds of Gigabyte of data from Italian based company Hacking Team into the open.
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Important Windows 10 Questions and Answers
Microsoft will unveil Windows 10 on July 29 and deliver it via Windows Update to millions of computer systems who opted in to upgrade to the new operating syste
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Futuremark ends support for Peacekeeper benchmark
I have run my fair share of browser benchmarks ever since I founded Ghacks to compare browser performance.
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Google Maps Timeline: Revisit places you have been to
Google is rolling out a new Google Maps features currently that it calls "Your Timeline".
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Firefox 40 features a Windows 10 optimized theme
When Firefox 40 comes out, it will look different on Windows 10 systems as Mozilla plans to ship it with theme optimizations for the upcoming Microsoft operatin
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Downgrade Windows 10 with EaseUS System GoBack
Next week, millions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems will be upgraded to Windows 10 thanks to Microsoft's free upgrade offer and promotion via the operating s
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Mozilla plans to change how Firefox ships in 2015
There has been one major change in past years in regards to how the Firefox web browser is developed and shipped to its users.
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How to set a default quality for Facebook videos
Facebook is one of the largest video hosting websites on today's Internet and while YouTube is without doubt the uncrowned king of recorded videos today, it is
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AOMEI Backupper 3: backup schemes and command line improvements
A new version of the popular AOMEI Backupper backup software for Windows was released yesterday introducing new features such as support for backup schemes and
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How to disable driver updates from Windows Update
Windows Update is configured to search for, download and install driver updates for devices installed on the machine Windows runs on.
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Firefox 41: Mozilla modifies how icon fonts are handled by the browser
Version 41 of the Firefox web browser ships with a change that affects how icon fonts are handled by the browser if fonts are blocked in the preferences by the
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Emergency Patch for Windows vulnerability MS15-078 released (KB3079904)
Microsoft pushed out an emergency patch yesterday via automatic updates to all supported versions of its Windows operating system that patches a critical issue
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Microsoft to support Windows 10 until at least 2025
Microsoft updated the Windows lifecycle fact sheet in July 2015 to highlight the two support phases for its upcoming operating system Windows 10.
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Five Windows 10 Configuration Tips for new or upgraded systems
Millions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines will be upgraded to Windows 10 at the end of July 2015 thanks to Microsoft pushing upgrade offers as Windows update
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Microsoft: 10 reasons to upgrade to Windows 10
Why should you upgrade a machine running a previous version of Windows to Windows 10? Or buy a computer with Windows 10? Or build one and install Windows 10 on
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Never miss game deals again with RedDeals for Android
It makes sense usually to buy computer or console games during sales, for instance the regular sales on Steam, instead of right away when a game gets released.
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How to block the insecure RC4 cipher in Firefox and Chrome
Whenever you connect to a secure website using Firefox or any other modern browser, negotiations happen in the background that determine what is being used to e
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Manga Blitz is a powerful Manga reader and downloader for Android
Manga Blitz is a free application for Android that adds Manga reading and downloading capabilities to devices running at least Android 2.
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How trustworthy is a search engine that filters results?
Reports started to come in today that Google has penalized one of the world's most popular torrent indexing websites Kickass Torrents.
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The Petrucci Music Library is classical music heaven
If you like classical music, then you may want to pay a visit to Petrucci's Music Library as it is one of the greatest free classical music resources the Intern
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Latest Vivaldi browser build ships with UI-less mode
Vivaldi released the fourth technical preview of the browser the other day which introduced an assortment of interface customization options to the browser amon
