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by techrific

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We are rolling out a 2000 image very shortly, with lots of security. Netscape is the last hurdle...To save us from doing every desktop's netscape profile at deskside, we need to cause netscape to stop prompting the user to select a profile. This happens for each new user that logs onto the machine. On top of that, when it does prompt for you to choose a profile, it doesnt accept the default anyway. I already gave the everyone group full permissions to the NSREG.dat file, but to no avail, any suggestions? Thx.

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by ayoshi

On the PC you are using to generate the image, open the Netscape profile manager (make sure Netscape itself is closed). Then, delete all extraneous profiles leaving only the "default" profile.

This should leave you a file in C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla, called registry.dat. This file is where the profiles are actually stored.

As long as:

a) all users are receiving the same directory name for their user profiles (for some reason, Netscape decided to use funky names here like"r5o6kpk6.slt"), and;
b) all of your users will always use the "default" profile,

then you can use this registry.dat file to overwrite the file on already installed images, and I would also include it as part of the image file.

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