Chapter 3. Using Student Survival Kit; Student Survival Kit Home Screen; Options; Configuration Assistant - McAfee STUDENT SURVIVAL KIT 1.0-GETTING STARTED Getting Started

Using Student Survival Kit
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McAfee's Student Survival Kit contains a suite of utility programs that cover
every aspect of your computer's health, performance, and maintenance. Some
of the tests are very specific while many are more general and allow you to
check your computer's performance efficiency with one click of a button.
These utilities provide you with diagnostic, preventive, and security tools to
help maintain your PC's health and well-being.

Student Survival Kit Home screen

Options

Configuration Assistant

This option is designed to assist you in activating and further customizing
how Student Survival Kit components should work on your computer. It
walks you through a series of configuration questions during the installation
process.
It includes configurations such as automatically scheduling tasks that a
component of the Student Survival Kit can perform on your computer. You
can also indicate how often a particular task should be performed.
After this interview is completed, a summary detail is displayed listing all of
the components that will be launched at startup so the you can see exactly
what features will be loaded after boot-up.

WinGauge

WinGauge is a dynamic reporting tool that constantly monitors your use of
Windows and your applications, to alert you to potential problems before they
become serious.
Information about your system is displayed using gauges. You can select what
to monitor and the type of gauge to use. Most importantly, you can choose
when you want to be notified in the event that your specified limits have been
reached.
WinGauge allows you to get into the habit of constantly monitoring your
system so you can take actions to prevent situations where errors could occur.
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