I'm repeating my queries (below) as the first posting received a deafening silence. Has no-one any comment to make on these subjects? ---------------------- 1. There was some talk a while back of the possibly disadvantageous effects of having a heap of ram. My W98SE system has 2 sticks of 256 PC2100 DDR, so I pulled one stick out to see if it ran any differently. I can't detect any changes. Anyone seen any information relating to a possible excess of ram? 2. I'm trying out Zone Alarm. I saw a mention somewhere in my travels about dial-up connections not needing Zone Alarm or similar firewalls. I'm curious to know if there is any foundation to this comment. Ian Porter Computer Guys Arrowtown New Zealand [log in to unmask] Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml