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Three software programs that [used to] plague our computers: Acrobat, Java, Flash

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There used to be three programs that really made our computer miserable. They were slow, bloated, intrusive and a lot of security holes opened with them when you installed. Java – Probably Java is the nastiest of all Until few years ago you could not browse some web sites because some derailed ‘web developers’ decided […]

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How to definitively turn off the Foxit updater

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The updater in Foxit is really annoying. And even if you turn it off via the GUI the updater application will still run in background. This will delay the main Foxit window start up. So, here is the trick: the the updater to think that it already checked for updates: Open the registry (RegEdit) to:

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