Student Survival Kit Getting Started Version 1.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1. Welcome to Student Survival Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Programs and features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Central Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Single update button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 McAfee VirusScan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table of Contents WinGauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 The Most Important Gauges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Working With Gauges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Using VirusScan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table of Contents Support forums and telephone contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 McAfee training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 1 Welcome to Student Survival Kit Thank you for purchasing McAfee’s Student Survival Kit; a suite of powerful and easy-to-use Windows software utilities that helps keep your PC working at optimum efficiency and speed, as well as diagnosing, repairing, and protecting your PC and its valuable data. Programs and features Central Interface The Student Survival Kit has an integrated central interface for you to easily access the individual components of the product suite.
Welcome to Student Survival Kit Single update button Student Survival Kit can automatically update all of the installed components via clicking the Update button in the main screen. The Update feature uses McAfee Software Update Finder to search for any available updates–including updated virus pattern files–to Student Survival Kit software, downloads and installs them. Student Survival Kit displays the McAfee Software Update Finder via a Web browser to check for updates.
Welcome to Student Survival Kit Registry Backup and Restore This utility allows you to easily backup or restore your Windows registry. Safe & Sound This utility allows you to 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). McAfee Image Allows you to save a copy of critical disk information in a file and restores the image later if your disk is corrupted.
Welcome to Student Survival Kit Cool Tools Winamp Nullsoft’s Winamp is an ultimate high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. It supports MP3, CD and other audio formats, more than 5,000 skins and 150 audio visualization and effect plug-ins. Winamp is freeware. For more information, visit their Web site at www.winamp.com PowWow PowWow® is a fully integrated instant messaging, interactive communications and online community solution.
Welcome to Student Survival Kit • Find tab Clicking the Find tab enables you to launch a full text search. When you search for topics via the Find tab for the first time, a Find Setup Wizard is displayed. Follow the instructions on screen to setup the full text search option. After setup is complete: 1. In the text box, type the first few letters of the word or phrase you are looking for. You can also select matching words to narrow your search. 2.
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2 2 Installing Student Survival Kit Most installation problems are a caused by having programs running while you try to install new software. Even if the installation appears normal, you won’t be able to run the new program. To avoid installation problems, close all open programs before you install Student Survival Kit, including programs that run in the background, such as screen savers or virus checkers.
Installing Student Survival Kit • Hard drive errors • Temporary files that conflict with the installation • Attempting to install while other software is running Follow the procedure outlined below to minimize the affect that these common conditions may have on your installation. Step 1: Clean up your hard drive Run the Windows 95 hard drive utilities, ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter to identify and fix any errors on your hard drive: 1.
Installing Student Survival Kit Step 2: Remove temporary files Delete the contents of the Windows Temp folder: 1. Double-click the My Computer icon on your desktop. The My Computer window opens. Double-click the C: drive. You are now viewing the contents of your hard drive. 2. Double-click the Windows folder. 3. In the Windows folder, double-click the Temp folder. 4. In the menu, click Edit, then click Select All. All of the items in your Temp folder are highlighted. 5.
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3 3 Using Student Survival Kit 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.
Using Student Survival Kit You can choose to have one, two, or more gauges to be active at any one time—with each gauge reporting on the status of your system. The more advanced you are, or the more demanding your projects, the more gauges you may want to keep active to monitor particular aspects of your computer and applications. By using WinGauge, and by customizing the gauges to your own specific needs, you will be warned about potential problems in time to take the necessary preventative steps.
Using Student Survival Kit Help If you need step-by-step instructions on how to perform a particular task within any of the components of Student Survival Kit, click the Help icon as it appears on the right-hand side of any screen to display available Help topics. Using VirusScan McAfee VirusScan provides complete desktop protection with an array of scanning features that keep your system clean, mean, and virus-free.
Using Student Survival Kit • Clean up shortcuts, Registry entries, and remove references in operating system files that are not connected to any application. • Empty the Recycle Bin. To set up QuickClean: 1. Click Cleanup in the main Student Survival Kit window. 2. Follow the instructions on the succeeding screens. The default settings will be displayed through the wizard screens, you can change it according to your preference. To change the QuickClean schedule: 1.
Using Student Survival Kit Registry Backup With Registry Backup, you have the following two options: • Back-up your registry: This backs up your current registry. • Restore your registry: If you select Restore, a list of registry backups appear. The registry that setup backed up originally is called Original. Backing Up Registry Use the following procedure to back up your registry. 1. Launch the Registry Backup & Restore Wizard via the Student Survival Kit window. 2.
Using Student Survival Kit Valuable and vulnerable disk organizational structure information is also stored in various places on a hard drive. This includes the boot sector, partition tables, directories, the FAT (file allocation table), and other structural components. These structural components are used by Windows to find data on the drive, organize it, and so on. If any one of these components is damaged or destroyed, you will not be able to access the data you’ve stored on the drive.
Using Student Survival Kit Safe & Sound automates the back-up process, doing the time-consuming and repetitive work for you. It lets you decide which types of files to back up, how often to save them, and where you want the backup set located (on the same drive, another local drive, or on a shared network drive). With Safe & Sound, you can create mirror backup sets that are, at any given time, an exact replica of the files you’ve selected to back up on the source drive.
Using Student Survival Kit Defining Your Backup Strategy After you decide which backup type you want to use (either a protected volume file or a directory backup set), the most important questions you must answer when defining your own backup strategy are: • Where will you store the backup set? • What files are important (which files must be backed up)? • How often should you or Safe & Sound make these backups? Where Will You Store the Backup Set? If the survival of your business depends upon your PC bein
Using Student Survival Kit NOTE: If your data usually resides on a server, you can make a local copy so you can access data even when the server goes down. What Files are Important to You? Safe & Sound automatically selects files that are typically important to include in a backup set. However, you can select other files or types of files to include in your backup set. In addition, you can create multiple backup sets of data for particular purposes.
Using Student Survival Kit McAfee Image Although it happens rarely, data stored on a hard drive can become damaged in several ways. For example, the electric company may be working down the street and accidentally send a spike, or power surge, to your PC. Even if you use a surge protector and connect all the computer’s power cords and the modem’s phone line to a surge protector (instead of connecting them directly to wall connectors), power surges can still reach your PC and cause lost or corrupted data.
Using Student Survival Kit Setting Image Properties You can set Image Properties to specify whether Image saves the File Allocation Tables (FAT), which is a roadmap or index to where all the pieces of files on a disk drive are located. Most likely, you’ll want to keep this check box selected. You can also have Image create a new image copy of your hard disks each time you start Windows (recommended).
Using Student Survival Kit To create a Rescue Disk: 1. Click the Next > button in the Emergency Disk Wizard. 2. Follow the screen instructions. 3. Click Next >. Then click Finish. 4. Insert a disk into drive A and click OK. Rescue Disk formats the disk and copies critical startup files to it, as well as any files you added. When the process is complete, Rescue Disk exits and returns to the desktop. Using a Rescue Disk Insert your Rescue disk into drive A, reboot your computer (or turn on the power).
Using Student Survival Kit Email Encryption • If you are using an email application supported by the plug-ins, you can encrypt and sign your messages by selecting the appropriate options from your application’s tool bar. • If your email application is not supported by the plug-ins, you can copy the message to the clipboard and perform the appropriate functions from there.
Using Student Survival Kit To retrieve your username and password: 1. In Browser Buddy, select the site name if it doesn’t appear automatically in the Current Web Site list. 2. Drag your username or password from the Password Manager box to appropriate field in your Web site’s login form. The text appears in the field. (If the site that you are logging into displays your password text as a series of asterisks (*), Student Survival Kit will display one asterisk for each character in your password.) 3.
A A Product Support BEFORE YOU CONTACT McAfee Software for technical support, locate yourself near the computer with Student Survival Kit installed and verify the information listed below: • Have you sent in your product registration card? • Version of Student Survival Kit • Customer number if registered • Model name of hard disk (internal or external) • Version of system software • Amount of memory (RAM) • Extra cards, boards or monitors • Name and version of conflicting software • EXACT error message a
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Product Support If the automated services do not have the answers you need, please contact McAfee at the following numbers Monday through Friday between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM Pacific time for 30-day free support, and 24 hours a day - 7 days a week for Per Minute or Per Incident support. Table A-1.
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Index A Internet Options 32 Ad Blocking 13, 32 Agent scheduling QuickClean 24 M Map Network Drive 28 McAfee Image 13, 30 B McAfee Scheduler 13 Backing Up Registry 25 McAfee VirusScan 12 Backup strategies 28 to 29 mirror backup 26 Backups automatic 27 frequency of saving 29 where to store them 28 why you need them 26 O Options 21 P Browser Buddy 13, 33 permanent storage definition 27 C Protected Volume Files 26 Configuration Assistant 12 Cool Tools 14 Q QuickClean 12 E Email Encryption 13,
Index Settings dialog box QuickClean options 24 Student Survival Kit online Help 14 System hard drive 31 System requirements 17 U Using Backup and Restore 24 Using QuickClean 23 Using VirusScan 23 W Windows 95/98 Registry 24 WinGauge 12 wizards QuickClean ?? to 24 Getting Started 40
