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Special Notes on this Tutorial
To use this tutorial you must have a working install of an Windows. If you have a copy of windows, you will also have internet explorer(IE) shipped with it, and thus don't need to install it. You do however need to update it, and this tutorial will walk you through this process.

Updating
All Windows computers have Internet Explorer already on them, but you need to perform updates. To do this you need to launch Internet Explorer, then go to Tools, and select Windows Update. Now if the newest version of Internet Explorer is available you need to add it, then download it. All things listed here are updates that can be installed on your pc. Critical updates are the most important and should always be downloaded. At this point you will need to restart your Windows computer so that the operating system finds the new version of IE.

Adding bookmarks
Bookmarks are a link that you add to a menu on the browser so that you can easily navigate back to a site you've particularly liked without memorizing the URL of the site. To add a bookmark you will need to go to the toobar at the top of the internet explorer screen and click on the book marks section. When you get there, you will need to click on the Add Bookmark option. You will now be prompted to give the book mark a title, do so and click okay. Now, to access a bookmark you will need to click on the bookmarks tab at the top of the screen again, then click on the bookmark in the menu below that you would like to visit.
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