Showing posts with label Tekki Answers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tekki Answers. Show all posts

04 August, 2011

How to Disable or Filter E-mail Notifications from Facebook

Facebook.com by default sends all your notifications related to your account to the email address that you used in your facebook account. For an active Facebook user, email notifications are least important and annoying.

You can easily stop & disable email notifications from Facebook settings page or by creating a filter in your email program. Here is how to do it.
  • Log in to your facebook account.
  • Go to Settings > Notifications .
  • Unchecked the features for which you do not want email notifications or you can unchecked all to stop all email notification.
  • Save the settings and its done.
We can also disable the email notification by using an email filter in your email account. Here is how to do it in gmail.com.
  • Login to your gmail account.
  • Select a notification message from facebook by selecting the check-box next to the message subject.
  • Click on the pull-down menu at the top of your inbox labeled More actions and select filter messages like these.
  • Next you have to decide what criteria you're using for this filter. Gmail will guess for you, and it's usually pretty accurate. If you are not sure what to do just click on Next Step.
  • Next is you have to decide what action Gmail should take. Mine I choose to delete it without having read it. Once you've completed this step, check the Create Filter button to finish.
  • If you ever want to change the settings or enable again the email notifications from facebook , go to Settings: Filters. and edit or delete the filter that you have created.
Now you have stop the emails of new comments and those pesky application invites from facebook. It saves your time and save you from being distracted by reading and deleting these facebook email notifications.

15 July, 2011

Almost All Applications are not Found after Removing XP Security 2012

I know that XP Security 2012 is a fake security program that pretends to be a malware removal tool. It change the Registry and drop fake random files which later are detected as malware. I am also aware that this can be removed by malwarebyte's anti malware, so I have no problem about it. 
BUT the problem is.., after running the malwarebytes and removed the XP security 2012, I cannot open almost all the applications. Every time I click the application, a pop-up error says "application not found" or it gives me a little window saying choose the file you want to open. I know that this is a kind of trojan virus and its driving me crazy. 
THANKS! that I found this solution in  Windows® XP File Association Fixes. 

Here is how to fixed the problem.
  1. Start the windows normally and open the Firefox browser. Click the Firefox browser, and in choose the file you want to open window, choose the firefox application to open it.
  2. Go to this link, Windows® XP File Association Fixes.
  3. In the given link, click the "EXE File association fix" to download the file.
  4. Double click the downloaded file to fix the problem.
  5. And lastly, remove the possible remaining treats by rescanning the system.
I hope it helps. This kind of malware attacks is need to prevented so we need to be careful of downloading from any unsafe sources. If this solution does help to solve the problem, please leave a comment on this page.