How to clear auto complete drop down box in Firefox

The auto drop down box is the combo box that will appear while typing the URL of web site
for e.g google.com, yahoo.com, gmail.com in Firefox's address bar.

The drop down box in Firefox is a link with the Firefox history of web pages.

If you are no more willing to carry this feature, you can disable it following simple steps as shown below:

1. First Open Firefox browser.
2. Then go to Firefox’s Preferences from tools---options or fire fox tab---options depending on the version of fire fox browser installed on your computer.

3. Select the Privacy tab.

From here, you have two options. First, you can clear your history and form data so that the current dropdown entries are erased. The second option will be to remove individual cookies( That may be a bit tedious but you can go with it if you are more a geek)

4. Select the clear your recent history link and then select to clear all your history shown by figure.

Also for removing individual cookies click the link of remove individual cookies link and follow the steps as shown in the figure.

How to write a bach file or a batch job?

If your are connected with world of programming, you might have heard this word " Batch File ". A batch file is used to execute a no of operations or a list of commands one after the other often requiring no user input. A no of operations are batched in a file to be executed sequentially when we run that file. In Microsoft Windows Operating system a batch file is a file saved with .bat extension while in other operating systems like Unix and Linux it can be written as a command file shell script. Batch files are often used to load programs, run multiple processes at a time, and perform common or repetitive tasks. For example, a batch job could be used to back up many files on a computer system, process log files, run a series of calculation commands, run multiple system diagnostic processes, or any number of other things that require multiple commands to be run. A big advantage of a batch job is that it can be started at any time and left alone until t...

Adding Password to Microsoft Word Document

Recovering Deleted Files, Pictures & Videos

So many times we accidently delete some important files, pictures or videos. Sometimes we loose files because of unexpected system failure ( ultimately causing system format). We can get our deleted files back using Recovery Softwares/Utilities. Even though a file was deleted there is a good chance that contents of the file are still around. When a file is deleted the contents of the file are not removed. Only a pointer to the file in the file system table is deleted. It is very important to immediately stop writing to the storage device that previously contained your files/pictures so that the old file contents are not overwritten. For example, don’t take any more pictures with your digital camera because new pictures will overwrite the deleted files. HOW TO RECOVER DELETED FILES???? Step1: You will need to use a utility to recover your lost files. I like to use a free ut...

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