View in Internet Explorer
If you've abandoned Internet Explorer because of its woeful lack of security, you'll be chagrined to discover that some sites are viewable only in IE, while on others many features are disabled if you don't use IE. Chief among these sites — no surprise here — is Microsoft's own Windows Update site.

The easiest way to work around this is to use Mozilla or Firefox as your default browser and install the IE View extension. It lets you right-click any page displayed in your browser and choose View This Page In IE from a pop-up menu to launch Internet Explorer and load that page. It also lets you right-click a link and select Open Link Target In IE to display a link in Internet Explorer.

Once you're done with the IE-only page, close Internet Explorer and get back to the relative safety of Mozilla/Firefox. You can install IE View from our CD here. Once it's installed, close down and restart your browser.