[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 11, 2003, at 4:52 AM, jfielding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> There are problems with Ethereal 0.9.16 on WinNT4 with the screen set 
> to 256 colours.

What happens if you exit Ethereal if you have any instances of Ethereal 
running, and then edit the preferences file (probably in 
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Ethereal\preferences, where 
"%USERPROFILE%" is the setting of the USERPROFILE environment variable 
- it's probably going to be your "profile" directory under 
C:\winnt\profiles) and:

	if the file exists:

		if it contains a line

			gui.toolbar_main_show: TRUE

		change TRUE to FALSE;

		if it doesn't contain a line like that, add a line

			gui.toolbar_main_show: FALSE

	if the file doesn't exist, create it, and put in a line

		gui.toolbar_main_show: FALSE

Then try running Ethereal again.