Netscape 6.1/Profile Manager Question

Factual Questions
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Call it lucky timing I guess but I was actually about to ask a “How do you do X” type question (well almost). It seems it is okay to ask it here.

I currently have Netscape 4.7 on my computer at home. When I open the browser I am given a “Profile Manager” which offers me three user (or profile) names (I don’t remember how I set that up).

This manager allows me and the two other users to have personal bookmarks, etc without having to have three different passwords into Windows. Sorry if I am stating the obvious but I don’t know how common this Prof. Manager is. I am not too computer savvy but I can get around somewhat. Believe it or not I am considered the “computer person” at home. If we had three different username/passwords it may take them hours to realize why their password isn’t working.

Okay here are the questions:

Sometime ago Netscape 6.1 cameout and I upgraded but I lost the Profile Manager. Did I do something wrong? Or is it not offered anymore? I actually deleted 6.1 and went back to 4.7 because of this. Can anyone help?

**Also, and I don’t know if this has anything to do with it but I am the only one with a Netscape account. Is that causing a problem?

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You have to launch it manually from the Netscape 6 folder in the Windows Start menu. If I need to launch the profile manager each time you start up, you could re-map the desktop shortcut to the profile manager instead of ‘netscp6.exe’.

I just installed NS 6.1 about a week ago and I’m still feeling it out. I didn’t like the 6.0 release last year, but this one seems a lot more stable.

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If there’s only one user profile on the machine, it’ll just skip the profile manager, because it assumes that you don’t want to be bothered if it’s just you. To start it the first time, go to Start:Programs:Netscape:Utilities:User Profile Manager. Then, create at least one more profile, and if there’s more than one profile available, it’ll always start with the Manager, so you need never start the Manager manually again.

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YOu can have more than one version of netscape on your computer.