Thursday, February 27, 2014

Windows 8 Gains Speed In Desktop OS Web Traffic

The latest operating system that was recently released by Microsoft now holds an eight percent share in the OS market, while Windows XP continues to lose speed. This is as per the new status from NetApplications. The Windows 8 upgrade continues to find its way to the operating system ranks and the XP operating system is losing its grip on the market. The stats that were released by Web tracker Net Applications gave the Windows 8 OS an 8.02 percent of all the desktop operating system Web traffic for the month of September. This is a hike from the 7.41 percent in August and 5.4 percent in the month of July.

In the first place, the earlier Windows 7 OS has shown resurgence in the recent months and has taken home a share of 46.4 percent in the month of September, 45.6% in August and 44.4% in July. The Windows 8.1 OS that debuted as a preview edition in late June will be released officially on Oct 18, which accounted for 0.87% of desktop OS Web traffic for the month of September. This is up from 0.24% the month before. These statistics clearly show that Windows XP is shedding its once dominant position and that the Windows 8 operating system is gaining speed. This is obviously happy news for those users who have done the Windows 8 upgrade.

In the world of mobile operating systems, the iOS from Apple remained firmly on top. It had a share of 53.6 percent of the market. However, the hold of this OS in the market has been readily dropping over the last year. This is as per the data from Net Applications. In the month of September 2012, the iOS had a share of more than 63 percent of the total mobile OS market.

The reason for the decline of the iOS is the steady increase in sales of Android OS. Android has been moving up the charts, especially in the last few months. For the month of September, the mobile OS by Google had a share of 29.4 percent that was up from 28.1 percent the month before and 25.2% in July. This shows that Android OS is becoming more and more popular among the mobile users for its unique and user friendly features.

If you wish to know more on the sales trends of the various operating systems, you can contact our tech support team.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Procedure To Uninstall The Yahoo Toolbar From Command Line

Toolbars are add-ons installed on your web browser. There are many toolbars available online. These add-on programs are downloaded or installed as part of some third-party software installation or they are installed from their official sites. A few of the famous toolbars include Yahoo toolbar, Google toolbar, Ask toolbar, etc.

The Yahoo! Toolbar is a web browser add-on that helps for the Yahoo! search engine to be used at any time through a search box that is glued to the top of the browser window. Moreover, the Yahoo! Toolbar can be customized further using mini-applications that can help create buttons on the toolbar. This can help in providing the ability of one-click access to popular websites such as eBay and Facebook. In case, you have tried the Yahoo! Toolbar and decided that you do not like it, then, you need not worry as it can be easily removed from the system from the ‘Add/Remove’ Programs list.

Some might prefer removing Yahoo toolbar from the command line, perhaps because the toolbar prevents the browser from loading. In such cases, you can uninstall the Yahoo! Toolbar in the Internet Explorer from the command line - in case you are unable to do so from the Control Panel. Here are the instructions:

Removing Yahoo Toolbar in Internet Explorer from the command line
  • You need to press the Windows logo and ‘R’ keys simultaneously for bringing up the ‘Run’ dialog. Then you need to enter ‘cmd’ in the box, (you need to ignore the quotation marks) and then press the ‘Enter’ key. Then, the command prompt appears.
  • You need to type ‘cd c:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common’ and then press the ‘Enter’ key. The prompt changes give you an indication that you have navigated to this folder. 
  • Then, you need to enter ‘unyt_wrap’ (again omitting the quotes) and press ‘Enter.’ You will see that a new window appears asking if you are sure that you wish to uninstall the Yahoo! Toolbar. Then, you need to click on the ‘Yes’ button. 
  • Subsequently, you need to click on the ‘No’ button when asked if you would like to send feedback about the Yahoo! Toolbar, then click on the ‘Close’ button. Then the Yahoo! Toolbar is uninstalled. You can now close the command prompt to continue working on your computer.
Following these instructions will successfully remove the toolbar from Internet Explorer.