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I have set up a network of 3 computers running Win 98. I need to set them up so that profiles other than admin have very restricted if any access to internet. I would rather not remove it, but I guess that has to be a last option. Have tried just about everything. Even played with Poledit, but that doesn’t do it. Thought I had it made when I found a prog called K9 parental control, but it isn’t for Win 98. Any suggestions out there? I am at my wits end.

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While I don’t have much experience with limiting children from the internet, I did do a search for “restrict or limit internet on Win 98”. Here is a page of interesting applications that looked appealing to me. Here is another interesting link that may provide ideas for you. Good luck with your monitoring job!

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How ‘restricted’ are we talking here?

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I would go for completely disabling it for all but admin profile.

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I don’t know if this will work for you, but may be worth a try:

Tools > Interent Options > Content > Enable…
Click on Approved Sites, enter “www.*” in the ‘Allow this site’ entry field and select Never
It will then ask for a password – don’t forget it!

A quick test showed that attempts to access the internet were stopped with a request for the password. I’m not sure if different profiles will meet with different responses, and you may have to play around with different masks to achieve what you want.

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Following on from Leif’s solution, you could then install something like X-Teq’s X-Setup to hide certain or all tabs from the Internet Options dialog.

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