Computer Act!ve - UK (2022-05-25)

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Issue 632 • 25 May – 7 June 2022 71

Having a problem with our recommended software or expert tips?

Email [email protected] and we’ll do our best to help

this clear. When you visit the Chrome

Web Store via our Snipca URL, you

should see a blue banner below the top

toolbar in Edge. Clicking ‘Allow

extensions from other stores’ here, then

the Allow button in the pop-up that

appears, will fix the problem.

If you don’t see this blue banner, click

the top-right menu (three horizontal

dots) in Edge, then select Extensions, and

click ‘Manage extensions’. The ‘Allow

extensions from other stores’ option will

be on the left here – click the slider to

turn it on (^1 in our screenshot above),

then click Allow^2.

Is BleachBit meant to have white

text on black?

Q

I used CCleaner for years until

Avast bought it and the PUPs

arrived. I thought BleachBit

(www.bleachbit.org) might be worth a

Does Avira need to unblock

Windscribe VPN?

Q

Thanks for answering my

question in Issue 630 (page 71) –

I can now get 10GB a month

using Windscribe (www.snipca.

com/41004). But now my anti-virus,

Avira Antivirus Pro, shows the warning

message ‘hosts file blocked’. Do I need to

change something in Avira?

Trevor Bunce

A

Avira is showing this warning

because Windscribe is

attempting to modify something

called the hosts file, which manages IP

addresses. By default, Avira blocks

anything from changing this file, as it

perceives this as untrusted behaviour.

One solution would be to disable

Avira’s hosts file protection (under

General, then Security in the main

‘Real-time protection’ options), but we

wouldn’t recommend this, as it would

mean other (potentially unauthorised)

programs gaining access to the hosts file.

Instead, try changing Windscribe’s

default connection settings, as it seems

Windscribe only needs to modify the

hosts file when attempting to connect

using the IKEv2 security protocol. Click

the three-line menu button in

Windscribe, then click the Connection

(plug icon) tab on the left. Under

Connection Mode, select Manual and

from the Protocol menu, select UDP.

How can I add VT4Browsers

extension to Edge?

Q

I visited http://www.snipca.com/41356

to download the VT4Browsers

extension (see Workshop Issue

629, page 38). I’m using Edge, but can’t

see the button to add the extension. Any

advice?

Alan Bailey

A

Yes, Alan first needs to allow

extensions from other stores in

Edge – apologies for not making

try, as you recommended in Issue 627

(page 51). But each time I use it, the

screen is completely black, with white

writing. Is something wrong?

Peter Alexander Carr

A

As Peter says, BleachBit seems to

default to a ‘dark mode’-type

interface, making some of the

options hard to see. There’s an easy way

to remedy this, though. Click the

BleachBit icon in the top left-hand

corner, then select Preferences. In the

window that opens, select the General

tab, then untick the box next to ‘Dark

mode’ (see screenshot below left).

Why can’t I run Snappy Driver

Installer Origin?

Q

I’ve just tried to run Snappy

Driver Installer Origin

(www.snipca.com/41568 – see

Workshop, Issue 630, page 38), and

Microsoft Defender has shown a pop-up

message to warn me about it (as you said

it might). But the ‘Run anyway’ prompt

doesn’t appear, only ‘Don’t run’. What

should I do?

Bob Hornby

A

In the Windows Defender

SmartScreen pop-up you

mention, you should see a small

‘More info’ option just under the main

text on the left – clicking this will reveal

the ‘Run anyway’ option. We did mention

this step in our Workshop, but it’s very

easy to miss.

You need to turn on

this option so Edge

can install browser

extensions from

other stores

Make BleachBit easier to see by disabling

‘Dark mode’ under General Preferences

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