How Do You Update Internet Explorer 5.0 To 6.0?
If you are still running Internet Explorer 5.0, your web-viewing experience may be hindered. Internet Explorer remains to be one of the most-used browsers on the web, with 60 percent of the browser market share as of March 2010. Internet Explorer 6.0 makes up roughly 20 percent of that. Updating your 5.0 browser to 6.0 is fairly simple, just download the installation file provided by Microsoft. Open your current version of Internet Explorer. Navigate to the Windows Update website (see Resources for direct URL). Follow the on-screen instructions to check for and download any available updates for your Windows system. After the updates have installed, restart the computer. Open your current version of Internet Explorer once again. Navigate to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer site. Select your operating system and region. You will be taken to a download page. Select “Download” to download Internet Explorer to your desktop. It will download as an executable (.exe) file. Double-click the downl