Chrome 69 includes some new features and enhancements, including the Material Design Refresh user interface. It sports a rounded UI (rounded tabs with a blue background). If you’re not fond of the new rounded design, here is how to restore the appearance of Google Chrome to “Normal” user interface.Read more
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Malwarebytes 3.3 Released: What’s New
Malwarebytes version 3.3 has been released today. This version seems to fix many issues, especially problems where real-time protection turns off automatically, as well as the issue of Malwarebytes Tray Application appearing on the Alt + tab screen. And the notification design looks great in this version.Read more
Replace Notepad With Notepad++ or Any Other Text Editor of Your Choice
Notepad is a light-weight program suitable for users who need only very minimal text editing features. For advanced functionality, third-party editors like Notepad++ and Sublime Text are awesome with a lot of features built-in. If you’re looking how to replace the plain old Notepad with a third-party text editor of your choice (say, Notepad++), this … Read more
Google Chrome Not Allowing Flash Player by Default
After updating Google Chrome to version 62, you’ll see that by default Flash player is not allowed on websites. Instead you’ll see the Allow or Block (if “Ask first” setting is turned on) choice for each site you visit. If the Ask first setting is off, Flash support gets disabled and you’ll see the message … Read more
Process Monitor “Unable to write PROCMON23.SYS” Enabling Boot Logging
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It can also trace the entire boot process and save to a PML log file. When enabling the setting “Enable Boot Logging” from the Options menu in Process Monitor, the following error may pop up:Read more
Malwarebytes Tray Application Appears in Alt + Tab Switching Window
After updating to Malwarebytes version 3.2.2, the “Malwarebytes Tray Application” window shows up in the Alt + Tab or Win + Tab task switcher window. This may be very annoying for users who use the task switcher frequently.Read more
Malwarebytes Real-Time Protection layers turned off at every startup
Malwarebytes Premium is an all-in-one security suite which guards the system from ransomware, exploits, malware and also provides web protection. In some systems, Malwarebytes Web protection module may get disabled, and the message Real-Time Protection layers turned off is shown in the notification area at every startup.Read more
Make Taskbar Translucent or Fully Transparent in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a hidden, built-in setting to increase the taskbar transparency using the UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency registry value, as you may have already known. Here are two new third-party portable tools using which you can make your taskbar translucent, set gradient color, or make it fully transparent.Read more
Block Skype Ads by adding the Ad Server to Restricted Sites
If you’re a regular Skype user who finds the Skype chat window ads to be distracting, here is a neat way to disable the ads and the ad placeholders. The instructions apply to Skype 7 desktop app for Windows.Read more
TidyTabs adds Tabbed User Interface to any Program Window
TidyTabs is a program that brings tab support to all of your programs. You can add tabbed browsing capability to any program window, including File Explorer, Office applications, Wordpad, Notepad, etc.Read more