Ad-aware Toolbar

At the top right of the Ad-aware main screen, you will find five quick-launch buttons. These buttons allow you to set preferences, turn on Ad-watch and more. Hold your mouse over each button to see a brief description of what the button does.

The five buttons are explained below:

• Ad-watch quick launch button: brings up the Ad-watch module. If it is not already running, it will be launched.

• Preferences quick launch button: opens the Settings configuration window.

• Quarantined objects quick launch button: opens the Quarantined objects window.

• Web update quick launch button: opens the Web Update module.

• Ad-aware information quick launch button: opens the Ad-aware about-screen, featuring credits as well as the version and build number.

Ad-watch

ACC recommends that you set Ad-watch to start at Windows start-up (see Settings below). When you click the Ad-watch button on the left of the main screen, you are turning Ad-watch on until you close Ad-aware.

When turned on, Ad-watch will run in the background to block changes to your registry made my third-party vendors, stop suspicious files from attaching to and taking over the browser, block all suspicious processes on the system, and lock executable file associations to prevent changes caused by worms and viruses.

Settings

To change settings, click the settings tool. Click the red and green buttons to toggle settings on and off. 

Important: ACC recommends that you load Ad-watch on Windows start-up. To set this option, click the settings button, then the Ad-watch button on the left (shown above) and then "Load Ad-watch on Windows start up" as shown below.

To optionally enable pop-up block, click the Tweak button on the left and then click Block popups and banned sites.