How To Update Windows Explorer

Why Windows 7, 8 Users Must Upgrade to Net Explorer 11

On Tuesday (Jan. 12), Microsoft officially phased out back up for Cyberspace Explorer versions 7 through 10, which means the company volition no longer release security update patches for the browser. People who do not apply the Microsoft Web browser may have ignored this news, but a alert from a Microsoft employee revealed that PC owners should be paying attending to what IE version they accept installed.

Pat Altimore, a developer consultant in the Microsoft Services Premier Programmer grouping, posted an update to his blog last Friday (Jan. 8) which explained that users running older operating systems including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 — even if they don't use Cyberspace Explorer, but have it on their computers — need to update to version 11, because without IE 11 installed, some security-based Windows components will not be serviced. Those parts include the rendering engine forJavaScript / HTML, the Web Browser command and Windows' Internet Protocol Handler, and those features aren't included in any system updates that operating systems receive.

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In his blog post, Altimore explained how other programs on your computer that admission the internet rely on these controllers, handlers and rendering engines to access the internet, so if your PC isn't running Windows 10 and cannot utilise Edge, it is relying on the technologies included in Net Explorer. Fortunately, Microsoft makes it easy to get the latest and most secure version of the Web browser, and we've got step-by-step instructions to go on you up to appointment:

How To Update Internet Explorer

Y'all tin download Internet Explorer direct from Microsoft (opens in new tab), but if yous gear up IE to automatically update, yous won't need to worry about this again:

i. Click on the Start icon.