The Internet Connection (December 1999 Action for Libraries newsletter) By Michael Sauers Disabling Netscape Navigator Preferences As a librarian with public Internet stations, you may want to protect your Web browser's settings by limiting public access to the Netscape Preferences found by selecting the Edit|Preferences... menu choices. The following steps will disable this menu choice. Find the file prefui32.dll (usually in c:\Program files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\). Rename the file (suggested): prefui32.dllx. When the Edit/Preferences... menu choices are selected, Netscape looks for the file prefui32.dll to execute the Preferences interface. By renaming the file, it no longer exists; therefore, the Preferences interface will not appear. If you want to be able to get into preferences yourself to make changes to your workstation, rename the file prefui32.dll. (Thanks to Steve Duffy, Dunn Library, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, for this wonderful security tip.)