Microsoft’s latest Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is an absolute must. It plugs a couple of nasty security holes, and it eliminates a flaw that identity thieves have exploited to fool unsuspecting victims into giving up details about their PayPal and Ebay accounts.
By itself, that’s really good news. But here’s a bonus that I haven’t heard anyone mention yet: This patch fixes the infamous scrolling bug that I wrote about last year. An exasperating bug in the November 11, 2003 Cumulative Security Update caused IE to jump two pages with every click in the scroll bar at the right of the window. After installing the new update, you’ll find that IE’s scroll bars work the way they should again.
Visit Windows Update and install this patch today.
Ed Bott 
I read your article “Backup Made Easy” (7/14/2003). I followed your instructions to open Windows XP Backup in my Windows XP Home Edition from the installation disk supplied by Gateway (who installed Windows when I bought the computer). When I double-click on Ntbackup.msi to install it, I get the following message:
“A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file: D:\VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP[1].msi.” I previously contacted Gateway and was told to contact http://www.onecomputerguy.com. I downloaded the program from his web site and when I tried to install it, I got the same message as above. Any suggestions on how I can obtain a workable version of this backup utility? Please don’t advise me to contact Microsoft, you can’t.
I’ve sent you a reply via email. It sounds like Gateway didn’t give you a “real” Windows XP disk but rather a recovery CD.