[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Bierman wrote:

> I seem to have screwed up some preference because the display is nothing 
> like what it was when I first installed it.  Rather than try to figure 
> out what I've done wrong, is there an easy way to restore all the 
> preferences to an original install without uninstalling and reinstalling?

On UN*X:

	rm $HOME/.ethereal/preferences

(or ~/.ethereal/preferences in most shells - the AT&T Bourne shell might 
not support "~").

On Windows:

	remove the preferences file from the "Ethereal" subdirectory of your 
"application data" subdirectory (in NT 4.0 and systems upgraded from NT 
4.0, that'd probably be C:\WINNT\Profiles\{your login name}\Application 
Data\Ethereal"; on W2K/WXP/WServer2K3, unless it's an upgrade from an NT 
4.0 system on which you had an account at the time of the upgrade, I 
forget where it gets stuck).

Perhaps a "Restore defaults" button (or "Restore factory settings" or 
whatever that function is usually called) should be added, to revert the 
 preferences to the values they had before the user's preference file 
was read (although, if it works that way, it shouldn't say "factory 
settings", as that'd reflect any settings from the global preference file).