# Account Setup Help

ACCOUNT SETUP

Start Account Setup

Account Setup is a utility that helps you quickly set up Communicator to access the Internet. To use Account Setup properly, you must choose whether you want Account Setup to:

- Help you create a new Internet account with an Internet service provider, or
- Help you quickly set up Netscape Communicator and its connection software to access an account that you already have.

Select the option "I want to create a new Internet account" if:

- You are new to the Internet and don't yet have an Internet account, or
- You want create a second or additional Internet account, or
- You want to change your Internet Service Provider.

Select the option "I already have an Internet account" if:

- You want to set up Communicator to access an Internet account that you already have. Your account must be provided by an Internet Service Provider and must offer access to Internet services such as the World Wide Web, email, and newsgroups. If your Internet Service Provider is AOL or Netcom or another provider that doesn't offer full Internet access, you won't be able to use Communicator with your account. If you want, you can use Account Setup to create an account with another provider that does offer full Internet access (see the "I want to create a new Internet account" option, above). After you've switched to a new service provider, be sure to call your old service provider and tell them you want to cancel your account.

To select one of the options described above, click the button to the left of the option. Then follow through the rest of the Account Setup screens, entering the appropriate information in each screen.

You can leave Account Setup at any time by clicking Exit in the Account Setup navigation bar.

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