Problem Solver: Banish errors, save data, and more blogging, blogger, blogspot, make money with blogTue, 14 Jul 2009 10:15:00 -0700 Okay, so I go in Response fellow blogger Lincoln Spector, PC World Online territory a bit. This week I will start with a problem that PC carefree readers sent in – an annoying IE error message at startup. I have an ingenious solution to the problems, and a way to speed up a netbook Windows XP, a tool that allows you to retrieve data from a form in Firefox, and a service that can convert images into text for you. Banish Start-Up Error Messages Randy hassle-free PC reader suffering from an annoying problem. Every time you start your computer, it will be a popup window in Internet Explorer with this message: blogging, blogger, blogspot, blog make money “can not find” File :///’. Make sure path or internet address is correct. “I feel his pain, Randy. Things like this can be seriously annoying. My guess is that you recently installed or uninstalled a program that Windows is looking for – but can not find – at boot time. What we need is some form of home monitoring that will show you everything that tries to run during the boot process, so you can determine the Internet Explorer related issue is the offender – and then release. blogging, blogger, blogspot, blog make money if you are reasonably tech savvy, I recommend Autoruns, a free tool Microsoft TechNet site. After running, click the Logon tab and find the entries that point to iexplore. exe. If you find one, clear its check box and reboot. Of course, this may involve some trial and error, but in the end would solve the problem. A similar, but simpler, is to run Windows Msconfig, click the Startup tab and then scroll through the Command column (which may have to offer full visibility) for lines containing iexplore. exe. If you find one, clear its check box, click OK and then reboot. Speed up your Windows XP PC and netbook newer laptops have plenty of power but are notoriously Pokey netbooks. Therefore, you must disable all operating systems that can make your computer even slower Lilliputian. If your computer runs Windows XP, as most netbooks, here is an easy way to squeeze some extra speed of: # Open the Control Panel. # Double-click System. # Click the Advanced tab, then click the Settings button in Performance section. # By default, the Visual Effects tab usually set to “Let Windows choose what’s best for my team.” Windows knows best?! Hardly. Change the setting to “Adjust for best performance.” You know, disable all visual effects in XP. # Click OK, and wait a few seconds while Windows will reset itself. Click OK again to close the System Properties. While this gives you a clearer, Windows less visually appealing, it also gives your netbook devote minimal processing power for more important things like running applications and data to compute. Save the data format in Firefox Raise your hand if this has happened to you: After filling out an online form long, click Save or Next or whatever, and BAM: browser crashes server sometimes the internet connection dies – in other words, has been increasingly the hard work. As someone who blogs about life (a task that is highly dependent on web forms), I can not count how many times I have experienced this nightmare. Too often we speak. Fortunately, Lazarus, a Firefox addon that makes it easy to save data form. That is how it works: Lazarus automatically (and safely), saves all the keystrokes you enter a web form, blog tools, comment box, or anything else. To get data, just right click and select Recover Lost or text form on the shortcut menu. Finally, this feature is now available in Firefox 3. 5 in the form of the restore session. (Now, if only added to Internet Explorer.) Lazarus saved my bacon several times since it was first installed a few months. Now I think it is an important part of my web life. Free OCR Service converts image files into text to recall the old days when they needed a scanner and OCR software expensive if you want to convert a page of text into editable text? The old days are gone, man! Free OCR is a free web-based OCR service that converts all image files are loaded into a text file that can be loaded into Word or Publisher document choices. The site supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF and PDF (albeit for the moment, only the first page in a PDF file, a rather annoying limitation that will probably be remedied in the future). The maximum file size is 2 MB, and the service is recommended at least 150 dpi. You also have to give up large-format documents for now: Free OCR does not even support columns and the like . Therefore, your mileage will vary depending on type and image resolution. As I said, the service is quite impressive. I used my iPhone to snap a picture of a document, and the resulting text file was damn near perfect. So give it a chance! It’s free – says so right in the name.