Trouble:

Its very embarrassing and troublesome when some not-so-decent and unwanted ads pop-up from no where when you are connected to Internet. It is a very common problem in many computers.

Let us see Why this happens.

It happens generally because some adware programs gets installed on your system while surfing internet.

What is an Adware?

Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package that automatically shows, plays, or downloads advertising material to computer after the software is installed on it or while the software is being used.

Lets see how an adware can be removed.

Fix:

How to detect and remove adware?

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Problem:

One of our readers "The dark knight" reported a problem that he has recently installed a game which he wants to play offline, but it tries to connect to the Internet every now and then. There are some times when some applications like games ,software’s installed on your system try to connect to Internet for various reasons.This becomes very annoying specially when you don’t know how to block it.Don’t worry here is the way you can fix it.

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Problem:

We have been receiving mails form our readers who want to speed up their Internet connection, so here are some simple but effective tips to speed up your Internet connection irrespective of whether you have a broadband or a dial-up connection.

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Problem:
This happens many times while logging in to Gmail when we get message “Gmail cannot not open in standard mode, try basic html mode”.

Why Gmail got hanged in standard mode while opening?

Few of the most common reason for this problem are:

1. Cookies or temporary internet files.
2. Bad/slow internet connection speed.

Solution:
You can fix first problem by clearing up your cookies and temporary files. Below is the step by step procedure to clean old cookies and temporary internet files for Microsoft Internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox as these two are the most commonly used browsers.

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