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Setting up Ad-aware...
| After installing, you should customize Ad-aware to best fit your needs.
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| On the title screen, click the "Configuration" button to get into the configuration menu.
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| Read here about the General and Additional options pages.
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| For an explanation of the Ignorelist, please conisder the "getting started" page in this document.
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| On this page you can set some basic options and specify the used language module.
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| Please notice that pressing "cancel" will not save your changes, to use the new settings you must close the configuration menu with the "proceed" button.
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| The ignorelist is the only exception, any changes will be saved to disk immediately.
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| Explanation of the different options :
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| Mark all references found by default
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| If set, all items in the result list will be marked for deletion after a scan.
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| You can of course check or uncheck them manually too.
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| (On the pop up menu in the list screen, there is also an menu item for checking or unchecking all items)
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| Scan on Windows startup
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| If set, Ad-aware will auto start when you start a new Windows session.
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| The sections specified in the scan-selection list will be used.
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| Safe mode (always ask confirmation)
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| Check this option if you want to be explicitly asked before any actions will be performed by Ad-aware.
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| This affects removing of spyware components, manipulations of list items, backups etc.
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| If you are new to Ad-aware, we highly recommend you leave this option checked.
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| Automatically remove all references found
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| This is an critical option, you should not use it unless you are absolutely sure
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| to remove any reference of advertising system recognized by Ad-aware.
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| If set, Ad-aware will remove any reference automatically.
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| All actions performed will be written to the log file.
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| If you use this feature, we highly recommend setting the 'Auto save log file' feature as well.
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| Important:
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| If Ad-aware detects that Web3000 has been installed, and replaced Wsock32.dll, no Web3000 references will be removed automatically.
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| For more information about this issue, please read the FAQ page in this manual.
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| Auto save log file
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| Check this option, if you want Ad-aware to save a log file every time automatically, regardless of the scanning result.
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| If Ad-aware does not detect any references, the log file will be saved after the scan.
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| Otherwise it will be saved after the cleaning process.
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| Enter a path name of your choice in the text box below, or use the button to browse.
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| If the entered path does not exist, it will be created.
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| You can also select a shared folder with write access in a network.
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| Language:
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| When started, Ad-aware searches the Ad-aware\Lang folder for language modules.
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| They will be displayed in this list.After changing the language, click proceed to activate the new settings.
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| Read here how to make your own language modules.
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| On this page you find more specific options, mainly used by Ad-aware plus.
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| Add "Scan with Ad-aware" to explorer context menu
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| If this feature is selected, you find an entry "Scan with Ad-aware" when right-clicking on a folder or drive.
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| Automatically remove files in use after rebooting
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| This allows the autmatic removal of some files that are in use while scanning, without the need of a complete rescan
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| after reboot.
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| Hide splashcreen at startup
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| As the name says, this option allows you to turn off the Ad-aware titlescreen shown during Ad-aware is loaded.
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| Play alarm sound if spyware was found
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| If this feature is enabled, a wave file (specified in the "Alarm-wave" ) will be playedallows the removal of some files that are in use while scanning, without the need of a reboot.
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| Use this feature with care.
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| Include additional process information
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| Shows details about the running processed, for example at what time it has been created or its priority class.
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| Include additional file information
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| Lists file details about recognized modules in the logfile, like version resources or the last time this file has been accessed.
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| Total spyware components removed
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| Shows you how many spyware components Ad-aware has removed from your system so far.
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| Click the eraser icon at the right to reset this value.
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