On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 11:18 am, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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).
C:\Documents and Settings\
Within which, under {login name}, Application Data is a hidden folder
IIRC. So you might need to go to Options in Explorer to show hidden
files.
> 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).
>
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Richard Urwin