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Prevent and Protect
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Sooner or later, everyone using Windows will encounter error messages, most
often caused by misbehaved programs. What you must do to resume your
work depends upon an error's cause and degree of seriousness. Normally,
errors force a program to close. So if an error is minor, you may be able to
recover and continue working just by closing and restarting the program. 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:
• Crash Protector - monitors your system and detects faulty application
performance as well as provide recovery methods in the event that an
application on your computer crashes.
• WinGauge–monitors your use of Windows and your programs.
• Trash Guard–provides delete protection of all the files you delete. It even
protects files deleted in DOS or 16-bit Windows programs
• Safe & Sound–lets you create automatic or interactive backups of selected
drives, directories, files or file types. You can back up to a protected volume
file (a separate area on the drive). A protected volume file contains
information about each file in every sector to ensure that files can be
recovered even if the hard drive's directories and data are severely
damaged or lost. You can also create mirror backups that instantly back up
data as you save it, make backups after a time delay when the PC is idle, or
create manual backups.
Crash Protector
Recovering from an Application Error
Crash Protector continuously monitors your system to detect when an
application performs an invalid operation or damages any critical part of your
system. When such "Fault" conditions occur, Crash Protector suspends the
application and displays the following dialog box.
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