Steps To Clear The Browser History

Mozilla Firefox users 

Viewing History

Press Ctrl + H to open the left-side history bar.

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Click History at the top of the window.

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Users using earlier versions of Mozilla Firefox can also view their history by clicking "Go" and clicking "History."

Deleting History

Press CTRL + Shift + DEL to open the Clear All History window.

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Mozilla Firefox users can clear their history by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Privacy" button, and under "History" click the "Clear" or "Clear Now" button.

If you don't see the File, Edit, View menu press the Alt key.

Google Chrome users

Viewing History

Press Ctrl + H to open the left-side history bar.

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Click on the "wrench" icon , which is located near the top-right side of the browser window and then click History.

Deleting History

Press CTRL + Shift + DEL to open the Clear Browsing Data Window.

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1. Click on the "wrench" icon , which is located near the top-right side of the browser window.
2. Move your mouse over Tools, then select Clear browsing data...
   
   
3. Select the amount of time you want to go back to delete in your history. You can choose from the past hour, the past day, the past week, the last four weeks, and the beginning of time.
4. Select the types of history you would like to delete. You can choose as many as you like from this list: Clear browsing history, Clear download history, Empty the cache, Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data, Clear saved passwords, and Clear saved Autofill form data.
   
   
5. Click the Clear browsing data button. This will clear the selected types of Internet history for the chosen time period.

Opera users 

Viewing History

Click Help and then About. Within the About Opera window you'll see the full path to where the cached files are stored. Browse to that file path to view cached files.

Deleting History

Opera users can delete their history by clicking the "File" menu, "Preferences", "History", and click "Empty now" button. In addition, users can check "Empty on exit" if they wish for this task to occur each time they exit the browser.

Netscape users

Viewing History

• Microsoft Windows users can view history by first opening Netscape and click the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "History", and view the location where Netscape is storing your files. Next, open this folder within Explorer.

Deleting History

• Netscape users can delete their history files by clicking the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "History", and click the "Clear History" button.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users  

Users running Internet Explorer 7.0 and above will need to press the Alt key in order to access the file menu easily to get access to options such as File, Tools, etc.

Viewing History

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and above users can view their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button under the Browsing history, and then clicking the "View Files" button.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x users can view their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button, and then clicking the "View Files" button.

Deleting History

Press CTRL + Shift + DEL to open the Clear Browsing History window.

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• Microsoft Windows users running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above can delete their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", and clicking the "Delete Files" or "Delete" button. Users also have the option of automatically deleting files each time the close the browser window by clicking the "Advanced" tab and checking "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed" under the "Security" section.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x users on an Apple Macintosh can delete the history by clicking the "Hard Drive" icon, "System",  "Preferences", "Explorer", and moving the history file into the trash.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 and lower users can delete their history by clicking the "View" menu, "Options", open the tab "Advanced", click the "Settings" tab, and click the "Empty Folder" button.

Steps To Create A Restore Point In Your OS

A  restore point can be created automatically or manually, depending on the actions of the user. Windows will create a restore point automatically when the user installs Windows for the first time on a computer and when Windows updates are installed. This is done in the event there are problems sometime after Windows or updates were installed and the user needs to rollback Windows to that previous installation/restore point. Below are the steps for how to create a restore point manually at any time.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users

To create a restore point in Windows Vista and Windows 7, follow the below steps.

1. On the Windows desktop, click START, find Computer (or My Computer) in the Start Menu, right-click with your mouse and select Properties.

2. A new window will open. On the left side, click on the System protection option. This will open the System Properties window, with the System Protection tab selected. (If the System Protection tab is not selected, click on that tab to select it.)

3. Near the bottom on the System Protection tab, click the Create button.

4. Another small window will open. Enter a description for the restore point in the text field and click the Create button.

The restore point will be created and available to rollback to if ever needed.

If you ever need to rollback Windows Vista or Windows 7 to an earlier time, on the System Protection tab, click the System Restore button and follow the prompts to select a restore point and initiate the rollback.

Windows XP users

To create a restore point in Windows XP, follow the below steps.

1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then System Restore.

2. The System Restore window will open. Select the Create a restore point option and click the Next button.

3. Enter a description for the restore point in the Restore point description text field and click the Create button.

The restore point will be created and available to rollback to if ever needed.

If you ever need to rollback Windows XP to an earlier time, on the first screen of the System Restore window, select the Restore my computer to an earlier time option and follow the prompts to select a restore point and initiate the rollback.

How To Protect A PDF With Password

When sending any sensitive data through e-mail, including PDF files, make sure to password protect or encrypt that information. Although this can be done in Adobe Acrobat, below are steps on how to create a password protected PDF that prompts for a password without having to purchase a program.

1. Download and install PrimoPDF, a free PDF creator.
2. Open the document or picture you wish to create password protected PDF for.
3. Print the file. In the print wizard change the printer name from your printer to "PrimoPDF" and click Ok to start the PDF creation process.
4. In PrimoPDF as shown in the below picture, select the quality of file, we suggest either "Print" or "Prepress" and then click the Change button for PDF Security.
5. In the Password Security window check the box for "Require a password to open the document" and enter the password you wish to use and click Ok.
6. Finally, click the Create PDF button to create the password protected PDF.

How To Boots Up Windows Faster

Disable startup programs

Programs that are loading up as the computer starts up to remain active in memory, are often one of the main causes of a slow boot in Windows. Disabling programs you don't often use from automatically starting up each time the computer boots can increase the boot time.

Scandisk / Defrag

Running Microsoft ScanDisk and Defrag or similar disk utilities on the computer can help verify the hard disk drive has no errors, as well as make sure the data on the hard disk drive is organized in the most efficient method. We suggest running both of these utilities at least once every few months.

Hard disk drive space

If your computer does not have at least 250MB of free available hard disk drive space this can cause an overall slowdown with your computer as well as decrease the boot time. Make sure your computer hard disk drive has 250MB or more of available disk space.

Add memory

Adding additional memory (RAM) to the computer will help increase the overall speed of the computer and in some cases can also increase the load times of your computer. Today, we suggest all computers be running a minimum of 1GB of memory in their computer. If your computer is running less than this it may be time to upgrade.

Update drivers and Windows

Corrupt, incorrect, or out-of-date drivers can cause a number of different issues. Make sure your computer has the latest drivers as well as any available Microsoft Windows updates.

Registry cleaner

Although we don't often recommend registry cleaners in some rare situations running cleaners can help improve the overall performance of Windows including the Windows startup. If you've run through all of the above recommendations you may want to clean your system registry.

Format and reinstall

If after following all the above steps your computer still seems to be slow you may want to erase everything from the computer and re-install Windows. This will clean your computer and make it like new.

Safe Guard For Your PC From Infected USB Pen Drive Virus Infections

Data transfer from one PC to another has become very common nowadays. Not only for purposes, rather various multimedia clips, songs, personal data, files and other utilities are also shared among friends or from one personal computer to another. One of the major source through which this data is transferred is through USB drives. There are number requirements. But, along with the data transfer you might have noticed that USB drives also becomes a source for virus to get transferred from one PC to another and in this way corrupts files in both the PC. Autorun viruses are some of the special threats which can come in the PC through the use of infected USB drives. So, in order to prevent your PC and your USB drives from such kind of viruses and malwares, one may use the utility which we are discussing today. official of USB drives available in the market nowadays, which a user can purchase and use on the basis of needs and

USB Disk Security is basically a small, easy to use, and a freeware tool which has been specially designed for Windows and it allows the user to protect the PC and USB drive against any kind of malicious programs which may be trying to attack either directly or through USB drive in one form or the other. This tool confirms and provides almost 100% protection against any kind of threats which may enter into your computer via USB drive. Not only this, rather this small and smart app provides you with a graphical interface which you may use to scan your USB drives and check if there are any malwares and viruses present in your USB drive. So, we can say that it may prove to be very beneficial for you as it monitors in real time and detects all the threats and malware.

If you want to try it out or want another step of security for your PC, then you may download it from the link given below and may use the app. You may observe that it runs from the system tray and without disturbing any of your on-going programs and running tools, it simply notifies you of threats, if there are any present in the USB drive. Along with the detection, it also provides you with the set of tools for repairing your PC and this includes other small utilities
like disk clean up, repairing registry, start up items and safe mode. 

So, overall we can say that it is really a useful utility in terms of providing an extra layer of security for your system.

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Get Alert, When A USB Is Plugged In While Shutting Down Your Computer

Sometimes while using the USB drive on your computer or laptop you may forget to remove it before you shutdown your computer.This can lead to a number of issues with your USB drive. You may also forget your USB drive with all your important data at any public place if you are using a computer at a public place. Today I have got an application for you named USB Guard which will notify you before shutting down your system and your USB drive or any external drive is still plugged in.

The application is very small and simple and does an important task to inform you about the USB drive before shutting down the system.The application doesn’t require any installation which means that you can even run it on the public computer. If you will shut down the computer and you get the notification about the USB drive that is plugged in the computer you can remove the USB drive form the computer using Safety Remove hardware option present in the system tray. After removing the USB drive successfully from the system you can use the power options present in the popup window to take the required action with the computer. The software will always be present in the system tray to monitor your USB drives. The software is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The USB Guard is an application which after being installed will sit in the system tray. The application will open the above pop up menu on right clicking the USB Guard icon in the system tray. The pop up menu will have options like Monitor the presence of these drives, Autostart with Windows, Check for updates, Check for updates at startup, Donate, Facebook Page, About and Exit. Out of all these options Autostart with Windows and Check for updates at startup are checked by default. The Monitor the presence of these drives option has options like USB Flash Drives, F: [Flash Drive], Hard Drives(i.e External). Autostart with windows option is checked by default due to which the software will launch every time you will start you system automatically. Check for updates options will check for any updates available for the software. Check for updates at startup option will be used in case you want to update your software to automatically check for updates as your system starts .

 The above window will open as the notification window when you will try to shut down your computer with your USB drive still plugged to it. The window has options like Shutdown, Standby, Hibernate and Restart..

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Save A Webpage AS PDF File On Your Computer For Offline Reading

Many times when we are browsing the internet for some information regarding a topic that we have to sometimes store that information and we may have problems in storing the information by saving the individual webpages. There are a lot of tutorial on various topics available on the internet in the form of webpages and you would like to save these tutorials on your computer or laptop for future references. But you only have the option to save the individual webpages in the form of a HTML page. You must be wondering that it would have been much better if you would be able to convert your webpages into PDF files. But now you can stop wondering and start doing as I have got an application named Joliprint for you.

This application will not only allow you to convert the webpages into PDF files but it will also allow you to print those files The application is available only for Mozilla’s Firefox browser as an Add-on. With the help of this Firefox Add-on you will be able to easily save and print all the articles that you want online. The Add-on will convert the full webpages into a very good looking PDF file which will include all the things which the webpage has like images, text, author, category, no ads, no navigation menu and only with a single click.

After you will install the Add-On in your Firefox you will see a small icon on the right side of the toolbar which will look like a printer. When you will click on this icon it will generate an article of the webpage that you have selected. You can pick the articles from any source like webpages, Google Reader, ReadItLater or InstaPaper list and click on the Ad-on button. After the PDF will get generated you will get the option to save it in Google Docs.

The best feature about this Add-on is that it will remove all the ads from the webpages and convert them into PDF file.These are all the option that you will get once you will click on the Add-on icon. The options which you will get are Download, Save in Google Docs, Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Email and Copy the link. The Download option will allow you to download the webpage in the form of PDF file. The Save in Google Docs will save the PDF files directly into the Google Docs. Then you have options to share the PDF on Facebook as well as Twitter. You can also email the PDF using the Email option. Copy the link option allows you to keep the link handy and read or download the PDF whenever you want.
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How to Block Unwanted Emails

Do you want to  block emails that reach your inbox?Here are the step-by-step instructions to do this....

For Gmail 

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Settings

3. Under Settings, click on Filters

4. You’ll now see an option “Create a new filter“, click on it

5. Now in the From field enter the email address from which you do not want to receive the emails

For ex. you may enter john@gmail .com in the From field to block all incoming emails from this address. However if you want to block the whole domain then use the following syntax: *@xyz.com. Now all the incoming emails from the domain xyz.com will be blocked.

6. Click on Next Step, select the action you’d like to take on the blocked emails. You may select the option Delete it so that the blocked email is moved to trash. To unblock the email, all you need to do is just delete the filter that you’ve created.

For Yahoo 

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Options

3. A drop down menu appears, now click on More options

4. In the left panel select the option Filters and click on create or edit filters

5. Now click on Add

6. In the next screen, give a name to your filter and in the From header field enter the email address that you want to block.

Fox ex. john@gmail.com or if you want to block an entire domain then just enter @xyz.com. Dont enter *@xyz.com. Select the option Move the message to: Trash and click on Save Changes.

For Hotmail 

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Options

3. A drop down menu appears, now click on More options

4. Click on Safe and blocked senders link under Junk e-mail

5. Now click on Blocked senders

6. Type in the email address that you want to block under blocked e-mail address or domain field.

For ex. Enter john@yahoo.com to block the individual email address or just enter xyz.com to block the entire domain.

Full Screen Mode for Turbo c on Windows 7

Step 1: Open TC++ (normally C:\TC\BIN\TC.EXE). In the startup it will show a dialogue box that it doesn’t support full screen mode as seen in the picture below. Just select ignore option. Then it will open the small screen mode.

Step 2: Go to the top left of the window and click. It will show a menu as shown in the figure. Then select properties from the menu.

Step 3: Now it will show the properties window, in which you select the Font tab. There you can see two font options as Raster and Lucida Console. The default will be Raster. You select Lucida Console and select the size from the size list as 28.

Step 4: After selecting the fonts, now you have to select the layout tab where you can see screen buffer size, window size, and window position options. First unselect the “Let system position window” option from window position options. Now make the following changes:

    * <!–[if !supportLists]–> <!–[endif]–>Screen Buffer Size: Width: 82 Height: 28

    * <!–[if !supportLists]–> <!–[endif]–>Window Size: Width: 80 Height: 26

    * <!–[if !supportLists]–><!–[endif]–>Window Position: Left: -4 Top: -4.

After making the changes select OK.

Now you will see a larger window and very crisp font size in which you can work perfectly fine. This technique actually doesn’t provide full screen in windows 7, but you will find it much better.

NB: The given sizes will work fine for 1280 by 800 screens, but there is no compulsion that you have to use them as specified. You can always use your own options according to your need.