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THE LATEST AND GREATEST Oil Change ensures your computer is running the newest software
These can be dizzying days for PC novices. By the time they've managed to install the latest software, it's already become yesterday's news, rendered obsolete by even sexier versions. Keeping up with that fast-food pace can become a full-time occupation. But Oil Change, a product that just hit stores from CyberMedia, a firm based in Santa Monica, California ($39.95; 800-721-7824), can take over the job itself. Oil Change works by connecting to a constantly maintained software database, automatically updating your PC with the latest versions and patches. The program indexes all the software you have on your hard disk and then scouts out the latest updates across the Internet; new versions of computer programs arrive over your modem and self-install. It doesn't get easier than that.