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| Unlike Ad-aware, Ad-watch is designed to run permanently, and does not need a wizard-style interface.
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| All options are available anytime from within the main- and tray menu.
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| To open the main menu, click on the "options" tab or right click inside the output window.
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The menu items..
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| Status
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| Click this item to turn the monitoring of your system temporary on & off.
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| Ad-watch uses very little CPU resources, but in certain situations, you might want to surpress the monitoring and logging.
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| Simply use this option to set Ad-watch into sleep mode.
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| Auto scroll
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| Turns auto scrolling of the log output on & off.
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| If you want to read the content of the output window, it is recommended to switch this feature temporary off.
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| Preferences
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| Opens the preferences menu.
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| Launch Ad-aware
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| Ad-aware will be started with the settings, you have made in the Ad-aware preferences.
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| Clear log
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| Clears all output and resets the output window.
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| Export log
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| Lets you save the log file (the text in the output window) to disk.
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| Network drives are supported.
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| About
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| Gives a small credit screen, showing the version and build number.
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| Note: This menu is also available if you right click inside the output window or
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| (if Ad-watch is minimized) with the right mouse button on the tray icon.
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Setting up Ad-watch..
| You find the preferences option under the appropriate main menu item, or by right clicking on the Ad-watch tray icon.
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| Like in Ad-aware, settings will only be stored if you click on "proceed".
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| To close the window without accepting any changes, click the close button. (or close the window as usual)
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| To reset all options to default, click on the "Default Settings" button.
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| A description of the preferences menu follows.
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| Priority
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| This option controls both, the update frequency and the task priority.
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| Normal priority is recommended in most cases.
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| Auto start Adwatch
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| Check this option, if you want Ad-watch to be automatically
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| started when you start Windows. It will start minimized.
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| Force unloading
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| If checked, any recognized module will be unloaded promptly.
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| You should check this item, if you don't want to give any of the recognized advertising systems access to your system.
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| If "Launch Ad-aware" is also set, the module will first be unloaded, then Ad-aware will be launched.
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| Note: Ad-watch will prevent the installation of some ad sponsored programs, if they try to install their
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| advertising system prior to the host application.
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| Auto pop up
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| If Ad-watch is minimized when an alarm occurs, this option will force it to show up.
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| Otherwise you'll notice that the tray icon will become flashing red.
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| Doubleclick on it to restore the output window, or choose 'Restore' in the menu when right clicking on it.
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| Launch Ad-aware
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| If checked, Ad-aware will be launched promply when spyware references have been detected.
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| Ad-watch will wait until Ad-aware is closed.
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| Automatic mode
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| When Ad-aware is executed, it will start an automatic scan and removal,
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| (only available if the "Launch Ad-aware" option is set).
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| Remove bad cookies
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| If checked, recognized tracking cookies will be automatically removed.
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| Always on top
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| If checked, the output window will reside on top of all other windows.
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| Snap to borders
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| This option lets the Ad-watch window "snap" to the desktop borders when dragged around.
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| (just like Winamp for example).
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| Appearance
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| Choose one of three layouts for the output window.
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