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Installing McAfee VirusScan Home Edition
14 McAfee VirusScan Home Edition
Step 3: Clean your hard drive
Run the Windows hard drive utilities, ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter to
identify and fix any errors on your hard drive:
1 Click Start on the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, then Accessories,
then System Tools, and click ScanDisk.
2 In the ScanDisk window, select Standard and Automatically fix errors.
3 Click Advanced. In the Advanced Settings dialog box, make sure the
following settings are selected:
M Only if errors found
M Replace log
M Delete
M Free
4 Ignore the other options, and click OK. Click Start. ScanDisk begins
scanning your drive for errors. Depending on the size of your hard drive,
ScanDisk may take several minutes to complete its job.
5 When ScanDisk is finished, close ScanDisk.
6 Click Start on the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, then Accessories,
then System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter.
7 Click OK to start Disk Defragmenter. Depending on the speed of your
computer and the size of your drive, this may take several minutes to
complete.
8 Close Disk Defragmenter when it has finished defragmenting your disk.
Removing or modifying your McAfee VirusScan Home
Edition installation
If your computer’s operating system is...
n Windows 2000 Professional
n Windows XP Home Edition
n Windows XP Professional Edition
... you must log on to your computer as a user profile with administrative
rights.
Then do the following.
1 From the Windows Control Panel, start the Add/Remove applet.