Here's our Windows 95/98 Tip for.. May 10, 2000
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Windows Update
As any Windows user knows, Microsoft is forever releasing bug fixes, patches, add-ons, and so on for Windows 98. There are so many that it can be impossible to keep track of what you do and don't have. Fortunately, Windows Update can help you make sense of it all. (Actually, you have no choice--Windows Update is the only way to download updates for Windows 98.) This "online extension of Windows 98" will check your system and let you know what you need to install.

Select Start, Windows Update, and complete the steps necessary to go online, if you aren't already. Alternatively, point your Web browser at

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Click the Product Updates link, and after a few minutes, you'll see a list of all components not yet installed on your system. (To view installed items as well, click the Show Installed Updates button.)

Look through the list--particularly the Critical updates, which appear first. Select those you'd like to install, click the blue download arrow at the top or bottom of the screen, then click the Start Download button.