With the recent changes in installing chrome extensions, Whenever you try to install an extension from the source other than chrome webstore it won’t get installed and instead it shows a message saying Extensions,apps, and user scripts can only be added from the Chrome Webstore Why this change ? It is been stated as to protect users from installing malicious extensions, apps from the third party websites. According to one of the developer comment in code.google.com they have overlooked the popular user scripts in installation and implemented a fix to resolve the issue. This change was made to protect users. Off-store extensions have become a popular attack vector for compromising users of larger sites (e.g. Facebook). Since the trend is only getting worse, we’re putting the power back in the user’s hands by allowing them to control where extensions are installed from. By default, the Chrome Webstore is the only source, but users and administrators will be able to add Read more
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Fix : Extensions,apps, and user scripts can only be added from the Chrome Webstore
There are many browsers available in internet hence the choice of making one particular browser as default comes into picture. Almost all the browsers will ask you to chose it as default browser by showing up a dialog box whenever you open that browser. But there are times when you might have asked not to show that dialog box and now you might wanted it to be default browser for some reason. So in this post I would like to show on how you can change the default browser. What does it mean by making a browser default ? There are few file types that any browser can open, making a particular browser as default is nothing but allowing that particular browser to open all the file types that it can open by default instead of asking with what application you would like to open. for example : If you have a file with name “index.html”, It has “.html” extension Read more
If you have set some other browser as your default and wanted to make Internet Explorer as your default browser then here is the way how we could make internet explorer as default. All the browsers will show a message to make it as default when it is not set as default but if you have selected not to show the message again then you can follow the below steps to make it as default. 1. Open “Internet Explorer” and click on settings menu to open “internet options” 2. In the “Programs” tab you can find the option to make internet explorer as your default browser. Select that option to make it as your default browser. 3. As soon as you select on the option to “make internet explorer as default” then it would be either set as default browser or will open up the default applications settings in windows where you need to select internet explorer on left hand Read more
To speak about “windows hosts file” you must have to know about the term “hosts” in information technology context and how do we connect to a host. What is a host ? A host in technology terms can be considered as a node in internet. A node in internet is nothing but a device that is connected to internet. It can be your computer, PDA or it can be a web server that is serving you the pages. Now if you come across terms like network host or web host then probably you can guess by separating the two words and getting meaning out of it. Host Name to IP address Mapping : How do we connect to a host ? Every node in internet has unique IP Address, this IP address will be used as an identifier to connect to that particular host. However a Static IP is different from Public IP and one can connect to only a Read more
If you are using windows 7 or windows 8 and would like to tweak your operating system to customize and personalize to your tastes then you can try changing the background of your taskbar. In this tweak we are going to add a custom image as background to taskbar and because of the transparency in the aero theme we can see the image behind the taskbar. However the aero theme has been disabled in windows 8 but there is transparency to set an image. There is also a tweak through which you can enable the aero theme in windows8. Taskbar Color Effects : The program that we are going to use now is Taskbar Color Effects. It is developed by Lee Whittington for The Windows Club. Though it was developed initially for Windows 7 it works fine for Windows 8 but needs .NET framework 3.5 to be installed on your PC. 1. Download the program from here and open “Taskbar Read more
In our previous post we have discussed on how we can find when was your PC last turned on, In this post we are going to use the same concept to find the last switch off time of your PC. It will be helpful to know at what time was your computer previously shut down for some or the other reasons like monitoring the usage of computer by your kid. Follow the simple steps below to get the last shut down time details. Concept : In your windows operating system there is event logging system which will log some set of events along with its time and stores it in event log. Now to find out the last shutdown time we are gong to browse through the set of events in event log. How to find the last shut down time ? 1. Open the System Event Log Viewer by typing “eventvwr.msc“in the run box ( windows + r ). Read more
There may be times when you leave your computer or laptop at home and go some where and you doubt that some one have used your computer or it may be situation where in you stay in a hostel and chances are more that your friends may have used your computer. Whatever may be the reason, you want to know when was your PC last time turned on . There are different ways to find it out. Every time you log into your computer windows logs an event in event log and the other way to get the same result is using command system information. Event Log 6005 : The Event ID for which event log started working is 6005. So quickly access your Windows Event log from run box by typing “eventvwr.msc” Follow the navigation to Event Viewer Local >Windows Logs > System and search for an event with ID 6005, It will give you the time and date Read more
You might have confused between the options that you see on your back and recovery options on your windows and could not differentiate , you have options like Create a System Image, Create a System Repair Disk and Set Up a back up. So here is the needed explanations so that you can identify the importance of each of the options. What is windows system image ? System Image is an exact copy of your drive which includes all your files, programs, drivers and system settings. It is useful in situations like when your PC ran into problems. System Image is a complete restoration of your operating system where all the present existing data is replaced by the system image data. Note : System Image option will create exact copy of your present installation and when once you are trying to recover your present installation is wiped out to recover the previous installation. What is System Repair Disk in Read more