In case you are an avid Firefox user, it highly recommended that you be cautious when you install Ask.com toolbar. Once installed, Ask.com toolbar messes with Firefox settings and adds the below given string to whatever address (URL) you type. Hence, you are not able to open any webpage and you keep getting the same error message everytime you enter an address (URL).
“Firefox can’t find the file at jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.properties”
Quick Solution:
1. Uninstall the toolbar from Start >> Settings >> Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs
2. Go to FireFox install Directory (likely, C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Components)
3. Delete AskToolbar.js
4. Restart FireFox and you are done!
And no, this error doesn’t have anything to do with Google Chrome Browser!
After struggling with sluggish performance of my laptop for a long time, last week I finally devoted few hours and some efforts to fix it. And, I would say I am impressed with the little tricks that I learned which improve performance. Listed below are few things that all PC owners should perform at least once in 3 months of daily use:
1. Defragmentation: Fragmentation of hard disk is the biggest culprit. Make sure you defrag your drives as frequently as sanely possible. I recommend using a defrag software that does auto-defrag and a lot of other things in background whenever your PC is idle, I like DisKeeper.
2. Clean up you Registry: Clean up your registry once in 3 months using any free/paid SW like RegistryVictor.
3. Create a New Profile: This is a tricky one, not recommended for rookies. Take a back up of your settings/favorites/Outlook rules/etc and then, reboot your PC in safe mode. Go to your user profile folder (dont try this if you dont know where profile folder is!) and rename it to something else (like X.orig) . Reboot in normal mode. Next time you login, Windows would recreate a new profile folder for you. When you login, you’d notice that all your settings would be gone. But, I bet that you’d notice improved performance. Restore settings/favorites/Outlook rules/etc. Copy Desktop, My document, etc from your old renamed profile folder. Just be careful to copy only the things you need to avoid bringing in the reason that slowed your PC in the first place. Use your PC for few days or when you are sure you’ve copied everything you needed, just delete the old renamed folder. This you could do once in six months.
4. Run windows “Disk Cleanup” to delete Temp files.
5. Delete Junk: RegistryVictor also deletes the junk getting accumulated or do it yourself.
Note: No matter what your PC configurations are, unless you perform at least few of the things mentioned here, you computer WILL slow down with usage.
Michael would always be remembered for his music, his style, his path breaking videos and the fact that he led the entire world music scene for over a decade. Click here to view his obituary on BBC.
The world salutes the King!
In Michael’s own words:
Like A Comet
Blazing ‘Cross The Evening Sky
Gone Too Soon
Like A Rainbow
Fading In The Twinkling Of An Eye
Gone Too Soon
Shiny And Sparkly
And Splendidly Bright
Here One Day Gone One Night
Like The Loss Of Sunlight
On A Cloudy Afternoon
Gone Too Soon
Like A Castle
Built Upon A Sandy Beach
Gone Too Soon
Like A Perfect Flower
That Is Just Beyond Your Reach
Gone Too Soon
Born To Amuse, To Inspire, To Delight
Here One Day
Gone One Night
Like A Sunset
Dying With The Rising Of The Moon
Gone Too Soon
Warning: You need a heart to see hard abuses to a cell phone
List of Tests:
Kicked, threw over, stood over, mashed it, drove over it, buried it in snow, hit it with a hammer, hit it with a wrench, heated it with a blowtorch, chilled it to 0 degrees F, held it under running water.
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"It's the music that keeps me alive, and my relationships with people and places I've known; The TV, the cars, the houses that's not the dream. Those are the consolation prizes, for selling yourself out or lettin' the best of yourself slip away."
-Bruce Springsteen
"It's the music that keeps me alive, and my relationships with people and places I've known; The TV, the cars, the houses that's not the dream. Those are the consolation prizes, for selling yourself out or lettin' the best of yourself slip away."
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