RegClean 4.1a and Netscape Navigator Can Live Together – 4273 days old

[muckshifter]

You minimalists considering an alternative to Internet Explorer might have noticed Netscape Navigator 4.08, rather than the more ponderous Communicator (who needs yet another e-mail client/newsreader and HTML editor).

The problem is, if you use Microsoft RegClean 4.1a, your Preferences feature (as in Edit/Preferences... ) in Navigator will most likely cease to function.

RegClean is a wonderful little tool for safely pruning your Windows Registry, so it would be nice to be able to use it along with Navigator.

Well, you can. The real trick is to run RegClean at least twice consecutively just before you install Navigator 4.08 (Communicator is unaffected by RegClean on all installations I've worked with). Then run RegClean immediately after completing your installation.

The Undo*.REG file created by RegClean after you've installed Navigator will be your template for "fixing" Netscape each time you run RegClean 4.1-a in the future.

Save it with an easy to remember name (say NetscapeFix.REG) and Merge it immediately after you run RegClean 4.1-a from then on. Netscape will get fixed each time and your Registry stays nice and trim.

Enjoy!


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[martzweb]

Ever tried RegCleaner Mucks? It's a lot more capable than the MS offering, and it's free.

www.tweakfiles.com i think......

M

[muckshifter]

I use EasyCleaner myself, very powerfull little program But it's NOT for WinME.

If you use EasyCleaner with ME be prepaired to re-install the OS.

[martzweb]

With ME, that really doesn't surprise me mate.....

ME, also called CFS, or Yuppy Flu, stayed on my machine for exactly 25 mins, before it came off and 2k got re-installed

i'll give that a go

[muckshifter]

No problem here Martz, I've used ME from day one. I did have to do a "dirty" install once, Norton did a wobbly on me so I bined it.

[martzweb]

i went from 2k back to try ME, and there was no comparison.... it just annoyed me.... call it a victim of my very short temper...

[muckshifter]

Know how you feel ... I have totally the opposite problem ... cannot get W2K to load on my system. I know most of the tricks in the book, but as it restarts for the last time ... uh oh ... nope, no bootie. It will insist on re-mapping the drives so it can’t find itself. Stupid Computer.

Thank goodness for Ghost!

Now with XP on the horizon…