From: doug4179@comcast.net   
      
   John wrote:   
   > I hope that this is the right newsgroup for the following:   
   >   
   > The problem:   
   >   
   > Yesterday I installed what I thought was going to be a second copy of NS4.6   
   > onto a different drive from the copy I've been using (because its original   
   > drive is full). Like a complete plonker I ignored the warnings about   
   > installing somewhere other than in the original location and without   
   > uninstalling beforehand. Nevertheless it all worked afterwards but I   
   > realised that my profile was still on the original drive so I moved it (I've   
   > done this sort of thing before). This made Netscape fail and a window   
   > appeared asking me to browse for the location of the profile, which I did.   
   > However, this must have failed and for some reason Netscape wanted to find   
   > D:\\archive and D:\\Cache right at the start of loading. The title   
   > page/banner appeared and plugins etc were loaded then after loading   
   > (attempting to load?) bookmarks it crashed with a page exception.   
   >   
   > So, I thought I'd better go back to my original copy but this did the same.   
   > Obviously there's some initialisation file in some predetermined location   
   > used by both copies. I uninstalled the lot and reinstalled it but the   
   > problems persisted. I think that what's happened is that when I installed   
   > the second copy there were files in existence because the original copy was   
   > still present so these files weren't reinstalled and therefore no record of   
   > their installation was made in the, presumably overwritten, installation   
   > log. Therefore the installation log that was created would not contain all   
   > the information needed to permit a full unstallation.   
   >   
   > The question:   
   >   
   > Which files I can manually delete in order to fully uninstall and permit a   
   > reinstallation from scratch? Or, which file contains locations of profiles   
   > or whatever other resources it needs? I don't think this stuff is in the   
   > registry but if anyone knows better please let me know.   
   >   
   > JEH.   
      
   IIRC, the nsreg.dat file in the Windows folder tells Communicator 4.xx   
   where to find its profiles.   
      
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