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[Tutorial] How To Check Security Processes In Your Windows

From the Windows startup, services and software are run in the background of your Windows to perform system tasks. These processes are mostly safe and secure, but it may happen that malware can manage to slip in their midst. With the free Windows Process Security, you’ll be able to check the safety of processes running on your computer by searching from over 130,000 threats. If the software detects a dangerous process (which may for example record your actions on the Internet, send emails without your knowledge, slow down your computer, etc…) and consuming unnecessary resources on your system, you can stop it and delete it permanently from your computer. In this tutorial I will show you how to perform this procedure using Windows Process Security tool.

[Tutorial] How To Disable Missing Extensions Notification In Mozilla Firefox

Sometimes when you visit a website, Firefox informs you that an additional plugin is required. Often, the request is legitimate to display content on the site as a Flash movie, but it may also be because the site tries to install malicious software on your computer. To avoid seeing these notifications and avoid installing anything, you must change your browser settings.

[Tutorial] How To Move Your Mozilla Firefox Cache Memory

In one of my previous articles I have showed you how to change the location of your Google Chrome cache, today I will show you how to do the same thing inside Mozilla Firefox. Used for each page load, the cache of your web browser is by default located on your primary hard drive or SSD which is logical because of the large number of reads/writes. However if you have more than 2GB of memory, you can place the Firefox cache in the RAM memory of your PC. Items loading from the cache will be accelerated and you lower the usage of your SSD or hard drive.

[Tutorial] How To Take Screenshot Of An Android Phone In Windows 7

If you are writing tutorials for Android phone, like those you can find at TheTechJournal, you probably want to take few screen captures of your Android phone pane and explain some steps user need to perform. In this tutorial I will show you how to take screenshots of your Android phone under Windows 7 and using Android SDK.

[Tutorial] How To Safely Remove USB Drives Just By Unplugging It – Windows 7

When ever you want to unplug/disconnect your USB drive or external hard drive from your desktop or laptop computer, from Windows system tray you always need to choose Safely Remove Hardware. The main reason why you should do this is to make sure Windows is not busy reading from or writing to the drive when you want to remove it. If you do this without using Safely Remove Hardware option you could damage your drive. However with just few simply modifications in Windows you can easily bypass this options and avoid those extra click when you are removing your drive.

[Tutorial] How To Block A Website In All Web Browsers – Windows

Blocking websites has become commonplace now because of parental control or for any other reason. Browsers offer add-ons which can effectively block any web site you choose, unfortunately, if the idea is to be unnoticed (e.g. because of your children which can easily disable the addon) there is an alternative way to achieve this goal in any Windows version and in this tutorial I will show you how.

[Tutorial] How To Make Mozilla Firefox Address Bar Transparent

When you enter a keyword in the Mozilla Firefox address bar, it offers a drop-down list of sites you’ve surfed. You can make the background of this list slightly transparent, as is the case in Google Chrome, simply by changing the browser settings and in this tutorial I will show you how to do that.

[Tutorial] How To Secure Your Google Account Using Google Authenticator

To protect your Google account (Gmail, Calendar, Google+, Documents, etc.) against keyloggers and people who try to steal your password, you can enable validation in two steps. In addition to your regular password, a single-use code sent by SMS to your phone or generated by the Google Authenticator will be required. Without this code you or anyone else wont be able to access your account. With validation in two steps, you have several methods for securing your Google Account. In this complete tutorial I will show you how to setup this service in order to protect your Google account.