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Changing Netscape Homepage Settings

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by jcombs 1 view

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I help support 13,000 users on a government network, we are changing our homepage address of these users and we need some way to change the homepage settings in netscape without having to walk each user through it step by step. We have the ability to push software and files to the end users machines remotely.
Is there a way to edit a configuration file for netscape so that it would change the users homepage when installed to replace the existing file?

Thanks Josh

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by pierce9

This is probably not what you were looking for, but most applications favor using the registry now in place of an ini file. I believe you can get an export from the Regedit utility of just the key entry you want to change and then distribute that extracted registry file to the user community. If they run the extracted registry file it will change the setting of their netscape. Let me know if you need more instruction.....empierce@aep.com

by jcombs

It wasn't in the registry. I believe that it is in netscape.cfg, however this requires an editor of some type. I can't find a way to edit this file.

by snooprob

You might want to consider writing a batch file or something that will change the homepage reference in the prefs.js file found in the user's profile. Hope this helps.

by jcombs

Thank you both. Your answers were both helpfull. Sorry it took so long for me to alocate the points, I thought I had already done that, thanks for answering my question.

by jcombs

Thank you both. Your answers were both helpfull. Sorry it took so long for me to alocate the points, I thought I had already done that, thanks for answering my question.

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