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by martin.hoer

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I am currently using netscape 4.7x for my browser. From time to time I send pages I have veiwed to friends by right clicking and hitting send page. Problem is messenger all of a sudden has started opening up in the task bar instead of coming to the front and allowing immediate entry of email address and sending. The only way to bring messenger up is to right clcik on it in the task bar and pick maximize, just left clicking on it does nothing except depressing the button on the task bar. This maximizes to full screen and will not allow sizing of the window. Any help to fix this annoyance is appreciated.

martin

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by sridharpandu

Netscape stores its preferences in prefs.js a javascript file thay you can edit. Its wavbl in the netscape directory under your profile. There is a warning at the beginning of the file, you can ignore it as there is a backup in liprefs.js. So you cant screw up much. But the behaviour you mentioned is strange. Give me the exact version and also the OS you are using. Also let me know whether you are using active desktop in case you happen to use WIN NT. Also have you installed Eudora ? Once upona time I used to have eudora and netscape 4.7x on the same machine and eudora made my life miserable, by messing up the prefs.js.

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by isys

Go to your Netscape shortcut, right-click, select Properties, Shortcut tab and change the Run selection from Minimized to Maximized or Normal Window, whichever you prefer.

by martin.hoer

Using active desktop. But I have 6 machines and use active desktop on all. This machine, compaq 5wv270 amd 750mhz and 576 meg memory is only one with this problem.

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