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FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Microsoft Hunt"Finding what you want on Microsoft's site is easy." "Yeah, right." Finding what you want on Microsoft's site is easy. Type www.microsoft.com into your browser, click the Search tab, and type a file name or search word — and the free program you've been looking for starts downloading. Yeah, right.A likelier scenario: after 20 minutes of thrashing around you still can’t find it. Microsoft’s site contains great technical discussions and useful software. Here are some tips for finding what you want: THE NECESSARY GOODS POWER TOYS , Kernel Toys, service packs, updates, resource kits, administrative tools, and Win 95/98 shareware: Go to www.microsoft. com/windows95/and click Downloads INTERNET EXPLORER software, service packs ,and add-ons: go to www.microsoft. com/ie/download or www.microsoft.com/ie/download/windows.htm. SERVICE PACKS for Internet Explorer 3.x or 4.x , Exchange Server, Office 97, and Windows NT 4.0: Go to support.microsoft.com/ support/downloads. ITEMS you were unable to locate elsewhere: try going to www.microsoft.com/msdownload. Drivers, FAQ’s and subject-specific support newsgroups: Go to support.microsoft.com/support. On your first visit, you‘ll be asked for your name and e-mail address. Don’t forget to click each of the four check boxes that begin ’I do not wish to receive unsolicited...’. You can search the site in either of two ways: Basic and Advanced. Head to the Advanced search, type your question in natural language, and the search engine will return what it considers to be likely answers. Select All Products to broaden your search. Check the Keywords option. If you’re looking for a product, type its name in quotes. Use an operative (and or or) between search terms. Articles edited from PC WORLD Jan/99
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