Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Installing XAMPP

What does XAMPP stand for?


  • X (cross) - cross platform
  • A (Apache HTTP server)
  • M (MySQL)
  • P (PHP)
  • P (Perl)

XAMPP is free and open source cross platform web server solution stack. It includes 


  • Apache web server
  • MySQL database
  • PHP and Perl programing languages
  • Also SMTP and FTP severs 


Installation process


It’s a simple regular software installation process to be followed

Download XAMPP installer using following link
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html

Double click the .exe file you have downloaded

Select the language you would like to install and Check the services that you want to install during the installation process.













Once your installation is completed you can start the services by clicking following buttons.


How to remove malware by using Malwarebytes application

In this article we can learn about how to remove malware using a program call Malwarebytes

To down load Malwarebytes software use the following link.

http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/














Once you have completed the downloading, run the exe file









Click on the run


















Select the language to be used during the installation















Click the OK button

It will navigate you to the welcome page of the malware byte installation wizard





















Click the next button

Check the I accept the agreement radio button instead of I do not accept the agreement radio button




















Click the next button

If you wish to read the important information, read it first and then click the next button





















Select the destination folder in your computer to install the application. For this instance I am going to leave it as default.





















Click the next button

Select the location to place the program’s short cuts and I am going to leave this as default too






















Click the next button

Select the additional task

Leave the create a desktop icon check box as checked




















Click the next button

Now it shows you the setting previously you have selected as a summery and it’s ready to install





















Click the install button

It will take a few second to install the application and it’s depends on your computer specification




















Uncheck the Enable free trial of malware bytes Anti- malware premium checkbox because we are using a free version of the application

Click the finish button





















Now you have successfully installed the application and are ready to remove malware in your computer

Click the blue scan button to start the threat scanning process


















Normally it will take reasonable time to scan your computer from the starting step check for updates to last step heuristic analysis


















We couldn’t find any threats because my computer had been scanned recently by this application

Once the scan is completed it will show you a list of treats detected during the scanning process

Click the remove selected blue button to remove the threats 


















You can find removed threats in the quarantine area in the history section



















Now you have successfully scanned and removed threats in your computer

To permanently remove scanned threat, go to the history and select the threats by checking the check boxes in the list and click the delete button or click the delete all button to remove all.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

How to download YouTube videos

This is a frequently asked question from the people who are not that much familiar with computers and the internet. But it’s a really simple process to be followed and there are lots of tools out there to download a video from the YouTube.

In this article we can learn how to download a YouTube video using software called YTD video downloader

To install the software please follow the steps given below and it’s a simple regular software installation process to be followed

Download YTD installer using following link

http://www.ytddownloader.com/

Click the Free Download button



















Once you have completed downloading, run the installer by double clicking on it











Click the Run Button


















It will navigate you to the YTD Downloader installation wizard

Click on accept and install button






















It will take a few seconds to install the application






















Click the finish button






















Let’s download a YouTube video using the installed application

First run the YouTube video that you want to download














Then copy the URL and past into the text box in the application




















You have few more option to select with

You can select the download video quality and location for saving the video in your computer





















Then click the download button




















Once you have started downloading you have the ability to stop, pause, delete the downloading process

















To open the downloaded file, click the save to link or right click on the name of the video and select the open containing folder

Now you can see you have managed to download the video from the YouTube.