McAfee UTILITIES 4.0, User Manual

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User’s Guide 11
Preface
About This Manual
Thank you for purchasing McAfee Utilities, a suite of very powerful yet
easy-to-use Windows software utilities. McAfee Utilities helps you keep your
PC working at optimum efficiency and speed. You can diagnose and repair
your system and application software; create a recovery disk and image
snapshots of critical sectors of your hard drives; avoid lost data during
application crashes; automatically or interactively create backup sets; back up
protected volume file which makes your data recoverable when it otherwise
would not be.
From the moment you install McAfee Utilities, it begins protecting your PC.
First, by guiding you to create a recovery disk that you can use later if
problems arise; Second, by activating Crash Protector, which immediately
protects you against losing unsaved information in the event that an
application crashes; Next, you’ll want to use Safe & Sound to create a backup
set of your drives’ valuable data that you can restore in case any unrecoverable
problems arise.
After repairing and protecting your system, you’re ready to use other McAfee
utilities to clean and optimize, prevent and protect, as well as secure and
manage your information.
NOTE: This User’s Guide contains general information on the
components of McAfee Utilities and how it works. For more complete
step-by-step instructions on how to perform particular tasks on any of
the utilities, refer to the available online Help files. You can also refer to
the Readme.txt file for any additional information that may not have
been included in this manual.
McAfee Utilities Overview
McAfee Utilities is made up of these suites of utility programs:
Repair and Recover
• 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.