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How to stop videos from playing automatically in the Facebook News Feed?

Facebook’s video auto-play settings can be turned on or off. This will help you save bandwidth and help remove the distraction of an autoplaying video. To stop videos from playing automatically do the following:
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  1. Go to your facebook timeline.
  2. From the top right of Facebook, click theĀ  option and select Settings
  3. Click Videos in the left menu
  4. Click the dropdown menu next to Auto-play Videos and select Off
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Solutions Web Windows

How to Change Proxy Setting in Internet Explorer

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Here are the steps to change the Proxy settings in Internet Explorer:

  1. Open Internet Explorer and select Tools from the menu bar.
  2. Select Internet Options.
  3. Select the Connections Tab.
  4. Select LAN Settings.
  5. Check the two tick boxes under Proxy Server.
  6. Enter your Proxy server name and the port number in their respective edit boxes.
  7. Click on OK.
  8. Close and re-open your Internet Explorer and you should be good to go!
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Remove Unwanted Apps From Your Facebook Profile…

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Facebook might be a fun social networking site to meet new friends and interact with them but thanks to the unimaginable number of applications available on Facebook it makes it a hard task to keep tab of all the apps you have authorized. A lot of these apps have access to information like your photos, friends and personal details. It clearly seems like a good idea to keep an eye on the applications you have added on your facebook page.

One of the simplest ways to check on the applications you have added is by following the below steps.

1. Go to the Application Settings page from your Facebook home page. The link is available under Account

2. In the next page, click on the drop down box next to the text “Show:” and choose Authorized

3. Double check the list of applications you have added, to remove an application simply hit the x at the end of the line for each application.

Do this check once every few weeks depending you your Facebook usage.

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