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  • Page 1 McAfee Utilities User’s Guide Version 4.0...

  • Page 2: License Agreement

    License Grant. Subject to the payment of the applicable license fees, and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, McAfee hereby grants to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use one copy of the specified version of the Software and the accompanying documentation (the "Documentation"). You may install one copy of the Software on one computer, workstation, personal digital assistant, pager, "smart phone"...
  • Page 3 4. Ownership Rights. The Software is protected by United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. McAfee and its suppliers own and retain all right, title and interest in and to the Software, including all copyrights, patents, trade secret rights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights therein.
  • Page 4 Software is contained. You must return the defective media to McAfee at your expense with a copy of your receipt. This limited warranty is void if the defect has resulted from accident, abuse, or misapplication. Any replacement media will be warranted for the remainder of the original warranty period.
  • Page 5 CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR FOR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES. IN NO EVENT WILL MCAFEE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF THE LIST PRICE MCAFEE CHARGES FOR A LICENSE TO THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF MCAFEE SHALL HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
  • Page 6 12. McAfee Customer Contact. If you have any questions concerning these terms and conditions, or if you would like to contact McAfee for any other reason, please call (972) 308-9960, or write: Mcafee Software, 4099 McEwen Road, Suite 600, Dallas, TX 75244 http://www.mcafeehelp.com.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    McAfee Utilities Configuration Assistant ........
  • Page 8 Using Zip Manager Wizard ......... . 49 Using Advanced McAfee Zip Manager ....... . . 50 Registry Pro .
  • Page 9 McAfee Task Master ........
  • Page 10 Table of Contents McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 11: Preface

    • Disk Minder safely, easily, and quickly diagnoses and repairs existing or potential disk problems. • McAfee Image saves an “image” copy of critical disk information in a file, and restores the image later if your disk is corrupted. User’s Guide...
  • Page 12 PC is idle, or create manual backups. Secure and Manage • EZ Setup lets you customize the Windows desktop, startup programs, icons, startup and close screens, and so on. McAfee Utilities...
  • Page 13 Preface • PGP encrypts sensitive files so unauthorized people cannot access them. • McAfee Shredder permanently deletes files so they cannot be restored or rebuilt, and “security wipes” free disk space. • McAfee Zip Manager easily creates compressed ZIP files, or unzips existing ZIP files.
  • Page 14 Preface McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 15: Chapter 1. Getting Started

    To install McAfee Utilities: 1. Insert the McAfee Utilities CD into the CD-ROM drive. The McAfee Utilities installer should autoplay (go to step 3), but if it doesn’t go to step 2. 2. Double-click the My Computer icon, the McAfee Utilities icon and the Setup.exe or Setup icon.

  • Page 16: Mcafee Utilities Configuration Assistant

    Utilities by double-clicking the icon. McAfee Utilities Configuration Assistant When using McAfee Utilities for the first time, you will be ask a series of questions via the Configuration Assistant interview wizard. This will assist you in customizing how you want some of its components to work on your computer.

  • Page 17: Mcafee Utilities Central

    Getting Started McAfee Utilities Central Figure 1-1. McAfee Utilities central The McAfee Utilies Central is your entry point to the various components of McAfee Utilities. The following features/buttons are displayed: • Click Help to launch the McAfee Utilities online Help file from the drop-down menu, or select About to display product information such as version number.
  • Page 18 • Click Secure and Manage to access the different utilities you can use to customize the appearance and behavior of Windows; and how to quickly and effectively archive information or exchange it with others. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 19: Chapter 2. Repair And Recover

    (any drive that allows you to save or write data to it). • McAfee Image lets you save an “image” copy of critical disk information in a special file, and restore that image file later if you need to repair or recover the disk’s information.
  • Page 20 If you decide to use this option, you can start Disk Minder and leave it running while you’re away from your PC, such as before you leave the office at night. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 21: Creating And Reverting To An Undo File

    Repair and Recover • Report Errors Only–If you are a more advanced PC user, you may want to see a report showing any errors on a disk before you decide what to do to resolve these errors. You can easily get a detailed report about the state of a disk using the Report Errors Only option in the Disk Minder Properties sheet.

  • Page 22: Disk Minder Summary Report

    McAfee Image saves information that you’ll need if your hard disk ever fails, including the boot record, partition tables and FAT information. It’s a good idea to run McAfee Image daily, as well as whenever you’ve reorganized a...

  • Page 23: Creating An Image Of Your Disks

    Click OK. Be sure to create a Rescue disk using McAfee Utilities’ Rescue Disk. Rescue Disk places some Image information on your 3.5-inch disk. Setting Image Properties...
  • Page 24 5. Click Finish to restore the drives with the specified kinds of data. Š NOTE: If your Image file is more than a day or two old, or if you have optimized your hard disk and have not run Image, try using Disk Minder to repair the hard drive first. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 25: Rescue Disk

    Repair and Recover Rescue Disk Rescue Disk lets you create an emergency boot disk that you can use to boot up your PC if you encounter a problem that prevents you from starting the computer from the system hard drive. The system hard drive is the hard drive that contains your Windows directory or folder.

  • Page 26: Disk Minder In Dos

    ( | ). Disk Minder also checks long filenames as well as short filenames that follow the 8.3 filename convention. • Check for Duplicate File Names–checks the selected drives for duplicate filenames (files with the same name in the same directory). McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 27: Image/Restore In Dos

    Repair and Recover • Check Reserved Attribute Bits–flags files that have any of the unused (by Windows/DOS) file attribute bits set. These bits may be set on a drive that is shared by OS/2, but otherwise you should most likely leave this option deselected. •...

  • Page 28: First Aid

    1. If you are having a specific hardware problem, click the appropriate component in the CheckUp desktop. A pop-up menu appears. 2. Click the check for the selected component. First Aid will perform a CheckUp on that component only. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 29: Using Universal Undo

    Repair and Recover NOTE: For more information as as well as guide in fixing problems detected by First Aid, refer to the online Help file. Using Universal Undo First Aid helps you undo mistakes you make with your PC’s settings. Quite often, seemingly innocent changes such as upgrading software or making a change in the Windows control panel can lead to unintended consequences.

  • Page 30: Using Ask Advisor

    PC. It provides all the information you need to make optimum use of all available memory. Unlike other system information tools, Discover Pro doesn’t simply display information that it obtained from Windows. Discover actually tests and measures the hardware and software in your system. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 31: The Discover Pro Window

    Repair and Recover The Discover Pro Window Discover Pro is easy to use and most windows are self-explanatory. Click the Help button for context-sensitive help from any window. Click a tab Click Print to display to bring it the Print dialog to the front, box where you can making it...

  • Page 32: Undelete

    Undelete button. McAfee Utilities provides both a Windows and DOS version of the Undelete program. The DOS version of Undelete is also included on the McAfee Utilities Rescue disk when you create it.

  • Page 33: Chapter 3. Clean And Optimize

    Clean and Optimize This chapter tells you how to use McAfee Utilities to optimize and maintain your PC to ensure you always get the maximum performance. The McAfee Utilities’ Clean and Optimize suite consists of: • QuickClean Lite enables you to delete various kinds of junk files and unconnected items on various folders such as your PC’s Internet Cache,...

  • Page 34: Disktune

    Using DiskTune to Defragment or Consolidate a Disk NOTE: McAfee Utilities uses McAfee Active Tune reduces drive fragmentation in real-time. It uses patent-pending technology that directs Windows to intelligently write files to the drive to prevent fragmentation.

  • Page 35: Active Tune

    For more information, click the Help button while working with DiskTune. Active Tune McAfee Active Tune is a new feature of McAfee Utilities that reduces drive fragmentation in real-time. It makes use of patent-pending technology that directs Windows to intelligently write files to the drive to prevent fragmentation.
  • Page 36 For more information, see “DiskTune” on page To enable Active Tune: 1. Click the Active Tune tab in the McAfee Utilities Properties dialog box. 2. Check Enable McAfee Active Tune. 3. Select the drive you want Active Tune to work on.

  • Page 37: Registry Wizard

    Clean and Optimize TIP: Use McAfee DiskTune to defragment your drive prior to using Active Tune regularly. For more information, see “DiskTune” on page Registry Wizard Registry Wizard makes maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of the Windows Registry database a quick and easy process. The Windows Registry is a database that replaces many functions of AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS...
  • Page 38 You can select a key entry and click the Repair button to manually change the value for that key. Or, you can click the Advanced button to go to Registry Pro and edit the orphan entries using that McAfee utility instead of Registry Wizard.

  • Page 39: Chapter 4. Prevent And Protect

    Very rarely, these errors can be serious enough to prevent you from restarting the program, or even worse, from restarting the PC. The McAfee Utilities’ Prevent and Protect suite of utilities take you step-by-step through the process of protecting your system against such eventualities before they happen: •...

  • Page 40: Recovering A Crashed, Locked-Up, Or Hung Application

    To unlock a locked program: 1. Hold down the CTRL and ALT Keys and simultaneously press the DELETE key (sometimes labeled DEL). McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 41: Wingauge

    Prevent and Protect CPR displays the Close Program dialog box. 2. Select the application that has stopped responding. CPR tries to recognize the program and pre-select it for you. 3. Click End Task to have CPR close the program, or click Reactivate to have CPR try to reactivate the program.

  • Page 42: Working With Gauges

    *.BAK, all files that have the .BAK file extension would be excluded from delete protection. Or if you enter ~*.*, all files that start with a tilde ( ~ ) and have any file extension would be excluded from delete protection. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 43: Safe & Sound

    McAfee Utilities. A protected volume file is a sectioned-off area of the drive, sometimes called a logical drive. Safe & Sound’s protected volume files have some very special characteristics that let Safe &...

  • Page 44: How Safe & Sound Creates Automatic Backups

    NOTE: For more information on Safe & Sound such as how to create a backup set, restore files from a backup set and modify backup sets, refer to the online Help file. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 45: Chapter 5. Secure And Manage

    • McAfee Shredder–lets you permanently erase selected files or non-file data on your hard drives. • McAfee Zip Manager–lets you create Zip files, expand Zip files, and build self-expanding executable Zip files. • Registry Pro– lets you manually troubleshoot, edit, and repair the registry database.

  • Page 46: Pgp

    PGP plug-ins. With these applications, you can encrypt and sign as well as decrypt and verify your messages while you are composing and reading your mail with a simple click of a button. McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 47: Mcafee Shredder

    For privacy and security reasons, you may want to be positive that the information stored in files you delete is permanently erased from your computer. McAfee Shredder does this for you by “security wiping” deleted files so they cannot be restored or rebuilt using undelete utilities. Unlike other file security erase programs, McAfee Shredder erases even the filename and the compressed data on DriveSpace drives.

  • Page 48: Shredding Selected Files

    Secure and Manage Ð TIP: You can select McAfee Shredder properties to specify the shredding level to perform. You can select: Quick to shred the information once; U.S. Government Multipass to make seven passes of repeatedly erasing the data; or Custom to indicate how many passes to make which allows up to 99 passes.

  • Page 49: Mcafee Zip Manager Wizard

    Manager Wizard lets you perform almost all the zip file management tasks you ever need, including creating zipped archives, creating self-extracting zip archives, adding to zip archive files, unzipping files, and so on. McAfee Zip Manager Wizard also lets you make a default association with Windows Explorer.

  • Page 50: Using Advanced Mcafee Zip Manager

    McAfee Zip Manager Tool Buttons Ð TIP: Point to a McAfee Zip Manager tool button and the status bar at the bottom of the window displays a brief description of the tool button’s purpose.

  • Page 51: Registry Pro

    Refer to the online Help for step-by-step instructions on how to perform any of these tasks. McAfee Task Master Task Master allows you to easily handle and control any application running on your computer. Through an easy-to-use dialog box, you are provided with options on how to handle applications you may want to reactivate, end, or shut down.
  • Page 52 Secure and Manage To use Task Master 1. Press Ctrl +Alt +Delete from your keyboard and the McAfee Task Master dialog box is displayed. Figure 5-1. McAfee Task Master dialog box WARNING: Pressing the Ctrl +Alt +Delete again will automatically restart your computer which may cause you to lose any unsaved data in applications that are running.
  • Page 53 To activate or create configurations McAfee Task Master also allow you to either create or set active an existing Windows Startup configuration. This is particularly useful if you often use game-related programs that require high-performance on your computer.
  • Page 54 Secure and Manage McAfee Utilities...

  • Page 55: Appendix A. Product Support

    • What steps were performed prior to receiving error message? • A complete description of the problem Product information For more information on McAfee products, you can visit us online at: www.mcafee-at-home.com Customer service To order products or obtain product information, contact the McAfee...

  • Page 56: Technical Support

    We encourage you to make this your first stop for answers to frequently asked questions, for updates to McAfee software, and for access to McAfee news and virus information. Take advantage of McAfee’s online support including chat, e-mail express and call-me-back assistance available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at http://www.mcafeehelp.com.

  • Page 57: Index

    First Aid fragmentation Active Tune Help Backing up & Restoring the Registry Backup Backups McAfee Image automatic McAfee Shredder McAfee Task Master McAfee Utilities Central Check-Up global McAfee Utilities central Clean and Optimize McAfee Zip Manager Configuration Assistant mcafee-at-home.com Crash Protector...
  • Page 58 Secure and Manage Task Task Master Trash Guard Undelete Utilities Discover Pro Disk Repair EZ Setup McAfee Image McAfee Shredder McAfee Zip Manager Registry Pro Registry Wizard Safe & Sound Trash Guard Undelete WinGauge Windows file management WinGauge zip files...
  • Page 59 Index QuickStart Guide...
  • Page 60 Index QuickStart Guide...

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