Can't Get My Home Page Back

Yesterday I Lost My Drive C: Operating System, So Bang Went My Netscape Browser Info. I Put Back Netscape But Its A Different Version So I Don't Know How To Reset My Home Page To About Blank?
Second, I Only Lost The Xp O/s From The Old Drive C: So I Thought The Other Files Would Still Be There? I Want To Recover All My Netscape Bookmarks? I Tried Searchi9ng Using Xp Search To Find A File Called Bookmarks.htm Or .html But I Didn't Find It On My Old Drive C:? I Also Tried Searching For Particular Site Names Within A File But None Of Them Come Up? I'm Mystified ?

 

Welcome to the Forum, Corsair1936!

Corsair1936,

First of all: what version of Netscape are you using now? It will help to know, so we can give you the setting for the startup with blank page.

Did you "unhide" your files on the old C: drive?

To see hidden files:
1. On the Tools menu in Windows Explorer, click Folder Options
2. Click the View tab
3. Under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders
4. Disable "Hide File Extensions for Known Files. "
5. Click OK.

To search for files in the Application Data folder, go to Start | Search.
Under More Advanced Options select Search system folders, Search
Hidden Files and folders, and Search subfolders.

 

also, what version was being used before. Right now you will be prompted to download the browser only v.8.1.2, which you don't want, unless you get Mail with another program.

 

Settings:

Netscape 8:

Tools | Options | General
Home Page
Location(s): click on the "Use Blank Page " tab

Netscape 7.x:

Edit | Preferences | Appearance
Click on the radio button beside "Blank page "

 

OK I got my home page back OK thanks....
I was using Netscape 6 and upgraded to 7 then to 8.1 a week ago. I reinstalled version 8.1. something so I'm looking in my old drive c: to find files called bookmarks.htm or html? I am looking for hiddeen files and I also searched in win XP for some of the old site names from my original drive c: but none came up? Where else can I search please?

 

corsair1936,

Look in the salted (*.slt) folder for your personal data, i.e., bookmarks.html, abook.mab, cookies.txt, etc. The folder should be located here:

C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\ profile_name\*.slt