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There are a number of ways to launch Internet Explorer. The easiest is to double-click the icon on your desktop. This icon looks like the letter “e” with a ring around it. If don’t have this icon on your desktop, you can launch Internet Explorer by going to Start > Programs, and then clicking on ‘Internet Explorer’ on the menu that pops up. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows XP provides a complete range of tools that help you get online. Of course, there are a whole lot of third-party software that you can install, but you can get started on the Internet with XP straight out of the box. Here we will give you an overview of various Internet software tools that come with Windows XP and how to get started with them. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows 98 was just a version of Windows 95 brought up to speed with the newest technologies. It now supported USB devices, and could also use the new FAT32 file system, which let it access drives larger than 2 GB.

Internet Explorer, till now a separate feature of Windows, was now integrated into the Windows user interface—one of the more notable examples being the ‘Active Desktop’, which let you turn your desktop into a Web page. Read the rest of this entry »