Keeping Windows Current

Microsoft regularly provides updates to Windows that address security issues. You should make sure your Windows system is current to provide additional protection. You learned about allowing Windows to perform automatic updates earlier in this book. Because this is a very important task, following are the steps you need to use to make sure you've allowed this:

1.	Open the Control Panel.
2.	Open the Automatic Updates control panel (see Figure 4.8). Figure 4.8. You should enable Windows to check for, download, and install updates automatically.
3.	Check the Automatic radio button.
4.	Choose the frequency and time at which update checks will be performed using the drop-down menus.
5.	Click OK.

If you don't run Windows regularly, it's possible you'll miss the automatic updates. You can also check for and install Windows updates manually by performing the following steps:

1.	Open Internet Explorer and navigate to update.microsoft.com (see Figure 4.9). Figure 4.9. Use update.microsoft.com to update Windows manually.
2.	Click Express. Your Windows system will be checked and compared to the updates that are available.
3.	Follow the onscreen prompts to download and install available updates.