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How to remove an advertising banner?

PC Setup

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Very often, while surfing the web, you can notice a massive number of advertising banners offering to visit a website or purchase something. Moreover, these banners often occupy up to 30-40% of the total page size, so the next question in this article is: we will consider the topic "How to remove an advertising banner?". What to do in such a case, how can you remove banners? The popular browser extension AdBlock, available in the respective stores, will help us deal with this problem.

Installing Windows from a flash drive on a laptop

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Many owners of netbooks or laptops have faced the need for a "clean" installation of the operating system or its reinstallation due to virus activity or other reasons. And here the main problem immediately arises – netbooks do not have a DVD drive, so it is not possible to install Windows in the usual way from a disc. The optimal option in this case is to use a bootable flash drive, with which you can install the OS not only on a laptop, but also on a desktop computer. To install Wind

Creating a bootable USB flash drive in Windows 7 using UltraISO

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The operating system installed on a computer or laptop, alas, is not eternal, so users periodically face the need to reinstall the system. [toc] The reason for this could be Windows failure, virus activity, or simply clutter and slow performance. Be that as it may, installing the operating system from a DVD is not very convenient. Why? First: you don't always have a blank disc on hand to burn the OS image. Second: the installation speed is significantly lower than in the case of

FireFox Proxy Server Configuration

FireFox Settings

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Sometimes the Internet connection is made through a Proxy Server, and in order to configure the Proxy in FireFox, you need to do a few simple steps. We will talk about how to set up a Proxy in FireFox. First of all - you need to open the FireFox settings panel. To do this, click on the button after which the main settings panel of the FireFox browser will open. Next, immediately go to the "Advanced" tab, then to the "Network" sub-tab, and then in the "Connection" section click on the "Settings" button. All this

Booting Windows / Computer in Safe Mode

PC Setup

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Safe Mode in Windows is used quite often, especially when the system is infected or when a series of computer tasks requiring safe mode startup need to be performed. What is safe mode needed for and what does it do? Booting Windows XP/7/8 in safe mode allows the operating system to start in such a way that programs in autorun do not load, and third-party services also do not load. That is, only important system processes run in safe mode.

Opera Security Settings

Opera Setup

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Recently, users are increasingly asking about security in the Opera browser, but often confuse it with network security. We talk about viruses, spam, and other horrors roaming the internet. Essentially, Opera, and any other browser, provide the maximum possible security, sometimes even warning about danger. Download free Opera browser. However, you yourself must keep your nose to the wind, because you can catch a virus online very quickly. Moreover, often pol

How to choose a hard drive for a computer and what is it?

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Hard drive on a PC — what is it and what is it for? Let's consider the types of HDD. Winchester, hard drive, winchester – a storage device Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with data rewriting option. This is an integral part of a PC, and the choice of this component must be taken very seriously. How to partition a computer hard drive? A magnetic HDD disk has platters, on which all data is recorded, PC information is stored, the operating system is installed, and the OS boots from it. These disks were widely used until recently. They have a large capacity

Classification of Malware

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Malware, or as it is called in Kaspersky Lab - malicious software, can cause serious damage to a computer by deleting, distorting, mass copying, and hiding information stored on the computer. Such software is commonly referred to as "Viruses" and is divided into classes, meaning viruses can be grouped into categories (classes). It is generally believed that the main goal of malicious software (malware) is unauthorized access to information stored on a computer.

Which processor to choose?

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When asking yourself which processor to choose, you should first think about what you need the processor for. Do you need it for gaming, for work, or for some other needs? [toc] It's no secret that the best processors in the world are produced by Intel. In second place is a serious competitor to Intel, AMD, with its high-performance processors. You can, of course, conduct a lot of tests and provide many graphs, however, this is not so effective because graphs are tiring

How to secure your Wi-Fi connection?

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Recently, many people do not protect their internet function. Lack of security can create big problems. Personal data theft occurs on the network; this action is done due to the owner's foolishness, as he shares network access with his acquaintances, causing them to save his data. As a result, they connect to the internet without the owner's permission, just by remembering the password. Every second person faces this problem. In the article, we will discuss ways to protect Wi-Fi. Unauthorized connection Hack

The computer started to work slowly

PC Setup

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The speed of a computer depends not only on its configuration, but also on the correctness of its setup and handling. For example: very often people's computers simply start to lag, regardless of whether it runs on a reference Intel i7 processor or on an ancient processor that everyone has already forgotten about. Proper care and configuration of a computer is a very delicate process that requires full attention and understanding of the matter. However, recently specialized programs have made this possible for

How to remove printer driver Windows 7

PC Setup

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To remove a printer driver in Windows 7 or any other driver in the Windows 7 operating system, you should open "Device Manager". Opening "Device Manager" is very simple, just open the control panel and type "Device Manager" in the search, then select the appropriate item from the list. Next, take the image processing device "HD WebCam", you can choose your printer or any other device. Right-click on the selected device and click

How to open a closed tab in Google Chrome?

Google Chrome Setup

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Almost every Google Chrome browser user has encountered a situation where they accidentally closed a tab in Google Chrome and need to urgently restore it because there is interesting information there, or, as many have experienced - they were looking for a good movie, started watching it, liked it, and closed it :))) For such cases, the Google Chrome browser created a separate function, as well as a keyboard shortcut with which you can open the last closed tab in the browser. To restore a closed tab in Google Chrome,

Online Virus Scan - ESET Online Scanner

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Viruses are the main problem for all internet users, as the world wide web not only provides an inexhaustible amount of various useful information, but also a multitude of all kinds of viruses that can steal confidential information or simply 'cause mischief' - delete or damage any files, including system ones. An installed antivirus program cannot always provide reliable protection against virus threats, so many experts recommend periodically sanitizing

Types of Software Licenses

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Programs developed by various companies can be distributed in different ways. Typically, these are Free, Shareware, and Paid. Let's discuss these types in more detail. Free Such programs are distributed completely free of charge and impose no restrictions on functionality or the like. Most often, free distribution is used for programs that few people know about. That is, it is done to popularize the software. But there are also cases where already popular prog

How to install Acronis?

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Installing the Acronis program usually does not take much time and requires minimal effort, so every user can easily handle this task. Now we will go through this simple process step by step. For example, let's take Acronis True Image Home 11.0.8059, however, in other versions of the program the differences are not significant. 1) Launch the installer, in our case it is called "Acronis True Image Home 11_0_8059 (Russian version).exe". 2) See the installer welcome, click the "Next" button. 3) Appears

Program Freezing

PC Setup

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This question is probably asked by every novice user. Why do programs freeze? In this article, we will try to answer this question for you and tell you how to prevent software freezing. The Windows operating system, when a program freezes, reports that the program process stops responding to requests. This means that Windows sends a request to the program, and the program, in turn, does not respond, i.e., it is not active, in other words - it has frozen. The main reason

Which browser is the fastest?

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This question is probably asked by every internet user, since which browser to use determines the quality and speed of surfing the web. The popular site Tom's Hardware asked the same question and conducted a test that showed which browser is the best today. For the test, they took 4 of the most popular browsers, namely: Google Chrome, FireFox, Opera, IE. [toc] The test was conducted on OS Win7 and Win8, the computer for the tests was chosen with an average configuration. The browsers were tested on the most needed

Installing themes in FireFox

FireFox Settings

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The FireFox browser provides a powerful toolkit for developing and subsequently installing themes. As a rule, themes are divided into 2 types, namely: those that change only the background and themes that change almost all browser elements. Themes are sometimes very useful, because the standard look of the FireFox browser sometimes gets boring and simply becomes annoying. This is comparable to how you often change the wallpaper on your desktop to diversify the look of the operating system :) So, to install a FireFox theme, go to "Add-ons", on

How to burn an ISO image to a disc?

PC Setup

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Very often computer users ask themselves the question of how to burn an ISO image to a disc? To answer this question, let's first figure out what an .iso image is and how it is made. ISO is a special format that typically represents an image of a CD/DVD disc. However, ISO images are made not only from discs, since you can also create an ISO yourself by throwing files from your HDD into it. The most popular program for working with ISO images is UltraISO, which can be found