[pchelpers] Win 98 & Internet Explorer

A friend of mine was looking for some info. He would like to disable his
computer from accessing the Internet, but still keep his e-mail (MS Outlook)
working.  He tried disabling (erasing) Internet Explorer, and while that
almost stops it, he kids could still access from Windows Explorer.  Does
anyone have an idea how to get round this?

I'm also looking for a bit of advice.  I'm running in Intel board with
Celeron 688, and only a pitiful 64 Ram.  I'm needing to upgrade my RAM. On
the motherboard instructions is says that if the system bus is 100Mhz or
below (I've 66 Mhz) then it will take PC-100 SDRAM, now I can only find in
the shops PC-133 SDRAM- the question is - will this work?

Another thing. I recently installed a CD-RW.  Since then I've had problems
with my computer.  I have 2 HDD and now 2 CD's.  Before my main HDD was on
the primary channel, and the other one was on the 2nd with the CD as slave.
Now with all the cables used, my 2nd hard drive wouldn't work.  Everything
would look fine but then weird characters would appear on it.  Eg, the label
was garbled letters, and then Windows would hang up when I tried to access
it.  Under Dos scandisk didn't show anything up.  Then bad sectors started
appearing on my main disk (it's partitioned by the way into 3 hard drives).
When I would boot up, the computer would hang up while showing the Win 98
screen.  I would have to switch off, do a scandisk and the whole C disk was
in a mess.  This happened lots of time and I has to install windows almost
every week.  Now I've taken out the 2nd HDD and got the 2 CD's on the
secondary channel.  I may put the CD reader back as a slave onto the primary
HDD. But it seems like the HDD doesn't like anything as slave.  All the
jumpers are correct, I've new cables in it.  I used Scanrite and that was
able to erase the bad sectors. Scanrite also showed up an extra bad sector
that windows didn't show - could that be a reason for the computer not
booting up? Now everything seems to be working fine (without the 2nd HDD
though).  Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen?  I would
like in time to use both HDD's.

Thanks in advance for any help with this question.

Yours,
Scott

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