Tweak

I understand a number of optional plug-ins are available offering card games and extra functions such as 'ieview' which adds "Open in internet explorer" to your right click menu. But this is hidden and only for enthusiasts who are happy and have time to play about searching through too many pointless plug-ins to find something of value.

If you have an aging PC and a 56 kbps modem Firefox may be for you. It will be a shorter download if you cant find a magazine with browser software stuck to its cover, and will use less of your disk space.

Firefox will probably succeed in achieving their 10% market share goal by the end of 2005 but that will be as far as it goes. IE will implement the very few enhancements Mozilla browsers offer and Firefox will remain a tool for consumers who dislike the prominence of Microsoft. Sadly, Firefox will become a greater threat to the more innovative Opera browser as users of this software have already demonstrated they are happy to change browser provider at the flick of an install now button.

1. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera' [1]
2. close Opera
3. open 'OperaDef6.ini' from the main Opera folder (where opera.exe can be found) in a plain text editor like Notepad
4. change the line 'Multi-user=1' to 'Multi-user=0'
5. save and close 'OperaDef6.ini'
6. copy the Profile and Mail folder from the 'Documents and settings' folder to the main Opera folder
7. 9.5: copy the contents of both Profile folders [1] to the profile folder you create under the main Opera folder
8. 9.5: doublecheck whether your mail data was stored under '\Local settings\Application data' (the new default location) or '\Application data' (the old default location)
9. open 'opera6.ini' from the newly created Profile folder in a plain text editor
10. update all the file paths you find there to match the new location
11. save and close 'opera6.ini'
12. done

1. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera'
2. close Opera
3. open 'OperaDef6.ini' from the main Opera folder in a plain text editor
4. change the line 'Multi-user=0' to 'Multi-user=1'
5. save and close 'OperaDef6.ini'
6. start Opera, this should give you clean new profile folders under the 'Application data' folders for the current user
7. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera' [1]
8. close Opera
9. copy the Profile and Mail folders from the main Opera folder to the noted new directories, replacing the newly created profile files (these can be overwritten)
10. 9.5: note that the profile subfolders 'bt_metadata', 'cache4', 'images', 'opcache', 'voicelib', 'vps' will go to the profile folder under '\Local settings\Application data'
11. 9.5: note that the Mail folder will also go under '\Local settings\Application data'
12. open 'opera6.ini' from the new Profile folder in a plain text editor
13. update all the file paths you find there to match the new locations
14. save and close 'opera6.ini'
15. done

1. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera'
2. close Opera
3. copy the Profile and Mail folders from the 'Documents and settings' folder to your chosen locations
4. open 'opera6.ini' from the Profile folder in a plain text editor
5. update all the file paths you find there
6. save and close 'opera.ini'
7. create a shortcut with this commandline:

   "C:\Program files\Opera\opera.exe" /settings "{path to profile folder}\opera6.ini"

   ... of course, using you chosen locations.
8. done

• main (installation) folder is likely 'C:\Program files\Opera\'
• profile folders can likely be found at 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Application data\Opera\Opera\' and 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Application data\Opera\Opera\' (the latter are used by installations of Opera 9.5 and later for data not suited for inclusion in a roaming profile)
• mail directory is likely either 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Application data\Opera\Opera\mail\' or 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Application data\Opera\Opera\mail\' depending on whether you started with 9.5 or an earlier Opera version.

• main (installation) folder is likely 'C:\Program files\Opera\'
• profile folders can likely be found at 'C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\Opera\Opera\' and 'C:\Users\username\Appdata\Local\Opera\Opera\'
• mail directory is likely 'C:\Users\username\Appdata\Local\Opera\Opera\mail\'

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