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START THEM ALL
The last tip told how to set Communicator to open with the Messenger mailbox rather than the Navigator browser. If you can't make up your mind about what to open with, you can select more than one or all of the options. To do this, open Communicator and select Edit, Preferences to open the Preferences dialog box. Click Appearance from the Category list, then select any or all of the options. Click OK to close the box and save your settings, which take effect the next time you start Communicator.

COMPRESSED INTO SERVICE
Accumulated messages tend to take up space, and even deleting them won't always create room. That's because messages leave little bits and bytes behind even after they're deleted. To make room, you can compress your Messenger folders, which cleans up extra disk space. To do this, select File, Compact Folders.

DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT
Normally when you reply to a message, the text of the original message gets quoted--that is, an angle bracket symbol (<) appears before each line to distinguish it from your reply text. Messenger actually gives you the option to skip quoting the original message every time you reply. To set this, choose Edit, Preferences, Mail & Groups, Messages, opening the Messages window of the Preferences dialog box. Uncheck the option "Automatically quote original message when replying," then click OK to close the Preferences box.

IMPORTED GOODS
If you already have an address book file--say, from another e-mail application such as Eudora--you can import this into Communicator as your Address Book. Open the Messenger Address Book, then select File, Import, which opens the Import Address Book File dialog box. Follow the wizard menus to import your existing file, which will convert to the Messenger Address Book format.

View Disk Cache
Type about:cache in the location box and you disk cache will be displayed. You can also find images only in your disk cache by typing about:image-cache in the location bar.

Back Up Bookmarks
You've spent valuable time collecting URLs. Now, before you try any of our fancy tricks, protect yourself by making backups of your Bookmarks or Favorites. For Navigator, select Start, Find, Files or Folders, type bookmarks.htm in the Named field, enter c:\ at the Look In field, and click Find Now. When you see the file at the bottom of the Find dialog box, hold down Ctrl and drag a copy to a floppy disk or to another folder.

A More Stable Relationship
Any browser crash can make Windows unstable. The severity ranges from an app going belly-up to Microsoft's dreaded Blue Screen of Death. If the culprit is Navigator, you can bring up the Close Program dialog box by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, selecting Netscape, and clicking End Task. But doing this can cause other open programs to fall like dominoes, so you might want to bite the bullet, close all running apps, and restart.

Make Navigator the Default
Changing the default in Navigator 3.x and 4.x is a bit more complicated. Follow the steps from the previous tip but uncheck "Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser." If you're lucky, restarting Navigator will summon the default browser query--but don't count on it. If Navigator balks, you'll need a text editor such as Notepad to edit the prefs.js file. Exit Navigator, and select Start, Programs, Accessories, Notepad. When it opens, select File, Open. Click the drop-down arrow next to "Files of type" and select All Files (*.*). The prefs.js file is in C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\yourname, where yourname is your Windows user name. Open it and look for the line user_pref("browser.wfe.ignore_def_check", true);. Carefully change the word true to false. Save, exit, and then restart Navigator. The default query should appear, at which point you can give Navigator the top bunk.

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