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Hi:

Thanks for the reply. It seems that if you install Netscape 4.5 over an
older version it won't work. I tried this on 3 machines and got the same
error everytime. The solution of deleting all the Netscape dirs ddidn't
work either. I had to reinstall Win NT to get N4.5 to work properly.
Each time I did a 4.5 install over 4.0X, and it failed every time...

IE works fine....

John.


Papadomichelakis John wrote:
> 
> "John J. Straumann" wrote:
> 
> > Hey all:
> >
> > I just installed Netscape 4.5, and started having some strange behavior
> > with some applets. First, there is a problem with some scrollbars which
> > I won't go into here. Next, the little applet below will not work, but
> > gives the shown error. This applet is right from the Dietel Java book,
> > and works in *every* other environment (IE, appletviewer, HotJava, etc.)
> > as well as older versions of Netscape.
> >
> > Of course, after installing Netscape 4.5 and finding these bugs, I tried
> > to uninstall it and reinstall Netscape 4.08, but I am getting the same
> > error.
> 
> Which 's was the previous version of Navigator that had installed in your
> system?
> 
> > Since a clean Netscape 4.08 install works fine, obviously
> > Netscape installs some common files that are not deleted on the
> > uninstall, so the only way to do a clean Netscape install is to
> > reinstall Windows and then reinstall Netscape.
> 
> Just un-install netscape, erase the Netscape's folder inside the program files
> directory and...
> you can get a new fresh install.

JJS> Not true...Netscape parks DLLs throughout the system which are not
deleted on uninstall. Then if installing a new version, the new install
will not replace a file on the system that is newer than the file being
copied. 

This is very shoddy work by Netscape...

> 
> Since you say that the installation does not override all necessary files, it
> may be possible that an old file my causing this.
> 
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