Index.url error on windows start up

Hello everyone

I get a strange error box that pops up stating that windows cannot find index.url, and to make sure that I have typed the name correctly and try again. This occurs when i first boot windows and arrive at my desktop screen, i checked start-up processes only the windows operating system and avast anti virus start up, everything else is disabled.

This started occuring when i installed two or three OCR programs, but have uninstalled them.

I checked the error log event viewer, but nothing seems to show something related to this error.

any ideas?

thanks!

i installed the OS about 6 months ago

no problems up until yesterday, as i mentioned it started to occur after i installed a few ocr programs, then i uninstalled them. I don't think its directly related to that tho...