"'Nita from Grafton, VA" wrote:
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> I have a Toshipa Satellite 225CDS laptop.  It is a pentium, 1MGZ, 2G hard drive.  This was given to me to give to my twin girls.  They will be mainly using it for school reports.  Since they are used to WORD 97 that is what I'm going to install on it.  Also, they will be doing web surfing for school reports.  They may play some games on it, mostly simple internet games.  Right now it has Windows 95 on it.  There are no files on the computer that need to be saved.
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> - I would like recommendations for a good (free?) filter to  use for web surfing my children.
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> - I would like to install Windows 98 (I have the disk) although there is a sticker on the laptop that says  "Designed for Windows 95".  I need to have a step-by-step go-by on the best way to do that.  I will add that unlike most in this group, I am terrified of DOS since I have gotten in it before and not been able to get out :)
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> TIA,
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> Anita Faulkner

IMHO, filters don't work. Parenting is a much better option.

Look here http://www2.1starnet.com/evictor/freshstart.html for simple WIN98 upgrade,
or clean install, instructions. You might browse the Toshiba
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/pd/pd_home.jsp site and see if there are any
FAQ's available. If you've got less than 64 MB's of RAM, I would seriously consider
an upgrade before installing WIN98.
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