There I was crusing the internet on netscape 7.2 watching some video's on a site. Closed both pages (I linked from another site) KAPOW! blue screen of death! Some mumbo jumbo about memory and downloading to disk with this something counting away. I watched this for a few seconds and shut it down. When I got it back up again, my netscape lost all it's settings, my email, bookmarks, the works. All gone.
I tried system restore (to no avail) All that did was screw up my McAfee. I have given up all hope of getting my settings back. So I uninstalled 7.2 and installed 8.1

Any one else ever had this happen to them? What would have caused this?

 

I use Firefox and Outlook for email. It does so much more so much better.

Edwin

 

Avant Browser beats them all!!!

 

Had Nutscrape years ago. Hated it.

 

Sounds like a good time to switch to Firefox.

 

Giving it some serious thought. I spent the day digging through various folders on the computer to see if I could get my bookmarks back. I found some folders that contained some bookmarks, but clearly they were old folders that didn't contain everything I had. Just a little dissapointing as it is going to be tough to get everything back again....
Through some little miracle my mail address book is intact. I didn't even have to do anything to get that back.


Any recomendations on a mail client??

 

one more vote for you to switch to firefox. my only gripe is it has problems if you use gmail.. be i think they did patch it. seems to be working fine the last 3 weeks!

 

FireFox has worked well for me.
I have noticed that FireFox is a little more memory intensive than NetScape, but well worth the few more megs or ram.

Rich.

 

Firefox!!! Another vote here (IT Nerd by day)

 

Try Thunderbird. Click

 

firefox browser and yahoo online for mail [my isp (rogers.com) merged with yahoo somehow so i can use their online yahoo email, or a program like thunderbird or outlook]

 

Do a search of your C:drive for Bookmarks.html. that's the filename that Netscape uses for bookmarks I think. Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox grew up out of the same codebase.

I use Outlook 2003 which comes with Microsoft Office but Outlook Express comes free with Windows and works very well.

I think that mozilla.org has an email client that's similar to Netscape's but I've never tried it.

Edwin