User Guide

Getting Started With McAfee QuickClean
26 McAfee QuickClean 3.0
The Task pane
The Task pane displays links that allow you to start McAfee QuickClean’s
primary Tasks and Advanced Tasks. The Task pane also displays links to
Related Tasks; and McAfee links to start the home pages of any other current
McAfee product installed in your computer.
If you select an item in the work space of a wizard, cleaning, or analysis screen,
then the Details or properties describing the item you’ve selected displays in
the task pane. For tasks that require several steps to complete, a task Progress
indicator displays in the Task pane as well.
About Tasks
Starting a task is as easy as clicking its link. The Task list allows you to start
QuickClean’s major components. Although the tasks you can perform will
vary based upon your computer’s operating system and its configuration,
primary tasks include:
n Start QuickClean Lite.
QuickClean Lite scans your computer for files cluttering your hard disk.
Here you can choose to keep, delete, or shred the files.
n Find non-critical files to remove from your computer.
This task starts the SpaceMaker wizard. SpaceMaker helps you scan you
scan your computer for junk, non-critical, multimedia, and old data files.
SpaceMaker is the wizard that allows you to run any custom rules that
you created.
n Remove a program from your computer.
After updating the SmartLinks database, select the program you want to
remove from your computer. You can chose to backup the program,
where to save the backup archive, or delete it completely.
About Advanced Tasks
Advanced tasks are not necessarily complex in nature. If you are at ease with
adding and removing programs from your computer; or you have a good
comfort level with general file maintenance, you should not experience any
difficulties performing most of QuickClean’s Advanced tasks.
Similar to the primary Task list, the Advanced task list may vary depending
upon your version of Windows, its configuration, and other software that may
be installed in your computer.
For example: