Netscape starting with !

[Rawlings_Gail_K/Sparks at oag-bvg.gc.ca]

We had this exact problem and the following solved it.  Once you reboot 
your computer the message should be gone.

Gail Rawlings
Head, Systems and Technical Services
Office of the Auditor General
Ottawa, Ontario CANADA
rawlingk at oag-bvg.gc.ca
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Subject: FW: strange Netscape alert
Date: Monday, November 03, 1997 8:05AM

Maybe this is what has happened to the Library Internet machine?  Want
to take a look?
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From: tkoppel
To: web4lib
Subject: Re: strange Netscape alert
Date: Friday, October 31, 1997 2:05PM


>From Paul H. Gray's original message:
*
*Running Netscape 2.01 under Windows 3.1
*All of a sudden - after you click the icon and before Netscape actually
*loads - I am getting an alert box  - no message -- just a small box with
*the "!" in one corner and "OK" in the other.
*Clicking on "OK" lets Netscape go ahead and load and everything appears to
*run fine.
*It's just a bother to have to click away what looks like an error messae
*every time you launch the application.
*
*Has anyone else seen this?  What did you do about it?


   Early Netscapes under Windows 3.11 used to give an empty dialog alert
   box when the REG.DAT file (Windows 3.11 version of the Registry file)
   was clobbered.  I imagine that if you did a CHKDSK or SCANDISK it would
   report a 'broken file' or something similar.

   When this used to happen to me, I deleted the REG.DAT file.  All was
   well thereafter.  Note that REG.DAT in Windows 3.11 had nowhere near
   the importance that it does in W95.

   Ted



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From: lharris at jsr.cc.va.us
To: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: Netscape starting with !
Date: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 6:34PM

<<File Attachment: NETSCAPE.BIN>>
Hi,

We have a small problem at my library.  When we run Netscape on one of our
Internet stations, it starts with a big yellow ! and an OK button.  I
remember some discussion about this problem (I think it was this list).
Can someone tell me how to stop this annoying problem.

Thanks


-Leonard T. Harris
Library Assistant
Downtown Campus Learning Resources Center
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College