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The popular data recovery software TestDisk and its photo recovery pendant PhotoRec have both been released as version 7 yesterday.

Not all but several Firefox add-on projects are hosted on the project hosting website GitHub. This means among other things that the source code of the extension and often also its Firefox xpi installation file are offered there.

You can rely on the native uninstaller when it comes to the removal of installed programs on Windows or use a specialized product to make sure that leftovers are removed from the system as well.

I looked at three programs yesterday that don't monitor the installation but scan the system for leftovers after the removal.

Whenever you want to uninstall software on Windows, you have two core options to do so. You may install it using Windows' remove a program control panel applet or use third-party tools for the job.

The native option in Windows gets the job done most of the time but lacks advanced features such as cleaning up leftovers.

If you have removed software in the past from your computer you may have noticed empty Start Menu folders for instance which were not removed with the program.

Whenever you visit an eBay marketplace, a list of suggested items is displayed in your feed on the start page if you are logged in to your eBay account.

While that sounds useful at first, it seems seriously flawed for many eBay users as items may be displayed in it that you have long lost interest in.

For instance, two years ago I searched for Martial Arts equipment on eBay but have not have searched for it since. Still, up to this day, eBay suggests gloves, pads and other related equipment in the feed when I open the site.

The Windows operating system saves records of every device that it recognizes while the PC is running.

If you connect a new USB Flash Drive for instance, it will save those information in various places. The same is true for other devices such as printers, external hard drives, scanners or input devices.

It is possible to display those devices in the operating system's Device Manager. To do so press Windows-Pause to open the System Control Panel and click on Device Manager once it opens.

Microsoft will ship Windows 10 later this year and with it comes an offer to upgrade existing versions of Windows to the operating system for free.

Since the majority of Windows users probably does not know about that offer as they may not read tech sites at all or only sporadically, Microsoft pushed updates to Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems that prepare the system for the update.

One of the first things that I do when I run a media player on the desktop for the first time is to make sure that seeking is mapped properly to the mouse wheel.

An option like that has not existed up until now on video hosting sites on the Internet. In fact, the mouse wheel is barely utilized on the majority of sites.

The Firefox add-on Video Mouse Wheel changes that for YouTube and Vimeo. It works with Flash and HTML5 videos not only on the video hosting sites directly but also on third-party sites with embedded videos.

Unchecky, a popular Windows program that blocks adware and third-party offers during software installations has been acquired by Reason Software, a company known for products such as herdProtect and Should I Remove It.

Remember Android Device Manager? Google introduced the service back in 2013 to help you locate your phone and erase the device if it was stolen or cannot be found anymore.

It required that you enable the service on the device before you could use the web dashboard to track down the phone.

If you did not do that, you had no option to locate your phone using the device manager service.