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Configuring Your Web Browser

Netscape Navigator 4.7

1. Open Netscape by Clicking the Start button, then clicking on Programs and selecting the Netscape Communicator folder. In the menu that slides out, click on Navigator.

2. In the Netscape window, click on Edit at the top, then click on Preferences.

3. Under Category on the left side, click on the "+" sign next to Navigator.
Under Home page, type www.ispname.xxx next to Location. Now click on the Appearance heading on the left side.

4. Under On startup, launch, you may put a check mark next to any of the Netscape components that you want to start when you open Netscape.
Under the Show toolbars as, heading, you can choose how your navigation buttons at the top of the screen will show up.
Now click on the Advanced heading on the left-hand side.

5. The following things should be check-marked:

Automactically load images
Enable Java
Enable JavaScript
Enable JavaScript for Mail and News
Enable style sheets

Under Cookies, you may set it according to your own preferences.
Now click on the Cache option under Advanced on the left-hand side.

6. Memory and Disk Cache will default to what your computer has set. Leave the cache size alone at this point.
If you visit a web page and a link doesn't work or you are seeing a different page than somone else, click the Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk Cache buttons. They will erase the web page from your computer's memory and allow your computer to download the page from the server.

Now click the Proxies option under Advanced on the left-hand side.

7. A dot should be next to Direct Connection to the Internet unless you have a proxy server in your office or house. After all necessary changes are made, click OK in the Preferences menu and close out of Nescape. You may need to disconnect and reconnect to the Internet before the changes will take affect.