Vaxxine Webspeed Accelerator User Guide
1. Using Vaxxine Web Accelerator
2. Advanced Options
3. Uninstalling.
Launching Vaxxine Web Accelerator
Vaxxine Web Accelerator launches automatically each time you
start Windows. It operates in the background to accelerate your Internet
connection. No user intervention is required.
If Vaxxine Web Accelerator is not running and you need to launch
it manually, an icon titled "Vaxxine Web Accelerator" is located
in the Windows Start Menu under the Vaxxine Web Acceleration folder
(as shown below).
If Vaxxine Web Accelerator is running, the Vaxxine Web Accelerator
system tray icon will appear in the Windows system tray.
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Accessing the User Interface
Once launched, the Vaxxine Web Accelerator icon will remain in
the system tray (as shown below).
In general, there will be no need to change the settings during
web browsing. You can use the user interface to change settings,
access the privacy manager, view the connection status, and check
the acceleration statistics. To access the user interface features,
click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator icon in the system tray (shown
above). A pop-up menu will appear (shown below), providing access
to all the features of the product. Selecting and single-clicking
any of the menu items will access that particular feature.
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Setting the Username and Password Information
Your username and password information is located under the Connection
tab. To set your username and password:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
and select "Settings..." from the menu.
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Click on the "Connection" tab.
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Enter your username and password in the fields provided. To
avoid having to do this each time you connect, ensure that the "Save
password" box is checked.
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To save your settings, press OK.
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Changing the Image Quality Setting
The image quality setting changes the quality of images that appear
in your Vaxxine Web Accelerator. The higher the quality you select,
the longer it will take for the image to load. For slower Internet
connections, it is recommended that you lower your image quality.
This slider can be adjusted anytime while browsing.
You can easily obtain full image quality for a particular image
(described below), so don't be overly conservative about lowering
your image quality setting.
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon.
Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select "Settings...".
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Select the "Image Quality" tab.
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Use the slider bar to adjust the image quality setting.
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Press OK to save the settings.
Getting Full Image Quality
Note: The following information applies only when browsing with
Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Firefox 1.0 or later, Mozilla 1.7.3
and later and Netscape 7.2 and later.
If you would like to request the full quality image while browsing,
simply right-click on the desired image from within your web browser
and select "Show Original Image" from the menu (shown below).
The full quality image will appear in place of the lower quality
image.
If you want to see the full quality version of all images on the
current page, simply right-click on any image from within your web
browser and select "Show All Original Images" from the menu
(shown below).
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Changing the Pop-Up Blocker Settings
Vaxxine Web Accelerator can prevent pop-up windows and floating
Flash advertisements from appearing while you browse the Internet.
This behavior is enabled by default, and no user-intervention is
required. However, you can disable these features at any time.
A limited number of web sites require pop-ups to function correctly.
Vaxxine Web Accelerator allows you to specify a "White List" of
sites where pop-ups will not be blocked.
You can also see a list of all pop-ups that were blocked. This information
is useful if you suspect a web site is not functioning properly because
pop-ups are being blocked.
To enable or disable the Pop-Up Blocker:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
and select "Pop-Up Blocker...". Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select the "Options" tab.
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If you would like to be notified when a pop-up is being blocked,
check "Notify blocked pop-up by PC speaker beep".
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To enable the blocking of floating Flash advertisements, check "Block
Floating Flash-Ads".
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To disable pop-up blocking for all sites, uncheck "Enable PopUp
Blocker".
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Press OK to save the settings.
To disable the Pop-Up Blocker for specific sites:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
and select "Pop-Up Blocker...". Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select the "White List" tab.
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Use the "Add", "Remove" and "Remove All" buttons to manipulate
the White List.
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Press OK to save the settings.
To view the Pop-Up Blocker log:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
and select "Pop-Up Blocker...". Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select the "Logging" tab.
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To add a web site to the "White List" so that pop-ups are no
longer blocked from that site, right-click on the site and click "Add
to Whitelist".
To add sites to the White List:
You can add sites to the White List within the Pop-Up Blocker dialogs
(which is shown above) or from within Internet Explorer.
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Right-click on any text while browsing within Internet Explorer.
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Select "Add to Whitelist" from the menu to add the current
site to the White List.
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Blocking In-Page Advertisements
Vaxxine Web Accelerator can block many graphical advertisements
that appear on various web pages (i.e. ad banners). Enabling this
feature will prevent these ads from being downloaded and displayed
in your web browser. Thus, the Ad-Blocking feature will reduce the
time that it takes to download web pages.
To enable or disable the Ad Blocker:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
and select "Settings...". Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select the "Features" tab.
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To enable ad blocking, check the "Ad-Blocking" box. To disable
ad blocking, uncheck it.
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Press OK to save the settings.
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Starting and Stopping Vaxxine Web Accelerator
When Vaxxine Web Accelerator is launched it automatically connects.
Occasionally, you may need to stop or start Vaxxine Web Accelerator
manually.
Stopping Vaxxine Web Accelerator:
If you want to manually disconnect Vaxxine Web Accelerator, right-click
on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon to access the
pop-up menu. Select the menu item "Stop Vaxxine Web Accelerator".
The icon that indicates Vaxxine Web Accelerator is disabled will
appear on the system tray.
Starting Vaxxine Web Accelerator:
If Vaxxine Web Accelerator is stopped and you want
to start it manually, right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator
system tray icon to access the pop-up menu. Select the menu item "Start Vaxxine Web Accelerator".
The icon that indicates Vaxxine Web Accelerator is disabled will
now be replaced with the enabled icon.
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Closing Vaxxine Web Accelerator
To close Vaxxine Web Accelerator:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
and select "Exit" from
the pop-up menu (see below). Vaxxine Web Accelerator will
disconnect and close. Doing this will not close any open web
browser windows.
Note: Vaxxine Web Accelerator will automatically launch again
the next time you reboot your computer.
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Changing Your Connection Settings
Normally, the connection settings that are set during installation
do not need to be changed. If your ISP provides new connection settings,
you will have to change the preset ones using the "Settings..." dialog.
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Click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon to
access the pop-up menu.
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Select "Settings...".
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Click on the "Connection" tab.
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Click on "Advanced...".
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Change the "Remote Server Hostname" and "Server Port" to the
ones that your ISP provided to you. In most cases, it is unnecessary
to change the "Local Listening Port".
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Press "OK" to close the "Connection" dialog box.
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Press "OK" to save your new connection settings. These settings
will be used next time you connect with Vaxxine Web Accelerator.
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Bypassing Vaxxine Web Accelerator for Selected
Sites
If you wish to bypass Vaxxine Web Accelerator for certain web
sites (e.g. web sites on your local corporate intranet), then simply
select the "Features" tab on the "Settings..." dialog and click on "Proxy
Exclusion" (see below). You have two options for bypassing sites:
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If you have already defined a proxy exclusion list in your
web brower, select "Use browser's proxy exclusion settings" to
configure Vaxxine Web Accelerator to exclude these sites as
well.
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You may also "Specify a proxy exclusion list" by selecting this
option. In the given text field, list all the web sites, separated
by semicolons, that you wish to bypass Webspeed Web Acceleration.
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Stop and then start Vaxxine Web Accelerator.
Note: Some versions of Netscape do not support the
wildcard (*) operator.
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Accelerating Flash
Vaxxine Web Accelerator can accelerate Flash files. The degree
of compression is based on the Image Quality setting.
To enable Flash acceleration:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon.
Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select "Settings...".
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Select the "Features" tab.
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Check "Macromedia Flash".
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Press OK to save the settings. The changes will take effect
the next time that Vaxxine Web Accelerator and your web browser
are restarted.
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Accelerating FTP
Vaxxine Web Accelerator now provides FTP acceleration. If this
feature is enabled, both download and upload FTP traffic will be
accelerated. FTP acceleration works with any FTP client that supports
passive mode, including Internet Explorer, Cute FTP, WS_FTP and Smart
FTP. Please make sure that the FTP transfer is in the passive mode.
This can be set in your FTP application.
To enable FTP acceleration:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon.
Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select "Settings...".
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Select the "Features" tab.
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Check "FTP (Passive)".
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Press OK to save the settings. The changes will take effect
the next time that Vaxxine Web Accelerator and your web browser
are restarted.
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Accelerating Email
Vaxxine Web Accelerator can reduce the amount of time that it takes
to send and receive emails. This feature works with any POP3 or IMAP
email accounts. Vaxxine Web Accelerator is compatible with Outlook
Express, Eudora, Opera Mail, Pegasus and Netscape Mail. Since Vaxxine Web Accelerator accelerates email automatically without any user intervention,
you can use your mail program exactly as you normally would. Email
acceleration is disabled by default.
To change the email acceleration settings:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon.
Please refer to the user interface section
of the product guide for detailed instructions.
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Select "Settings...".
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Select the "Features" tab.
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To enable/disable acceleration when receiving emails from a
POP3 account, check/uncheck the "POP3" option.
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To enable/disable acceleration when sending emails, check/uncheck
the "SMTP" option.
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To enable/disable acceleration when receiving emails from an
IMAP account, check/uncheck the "IMAP" option.
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Press OK to save the settings. The changes will take effect
the next time that Vaxxine Web Accelerator and your mail client
are restarted.
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Viewing Your Acceleration Statistics
You can view the acceleration statistics and how they change dynamically
using the Statistics dialog.
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Click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon to
access the pop-up menu.
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Select "Statistics..." to
display the Statistics summary dialog.
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Click "Reset" to reset the statistics. This can be done at anytime
(even while browsing) without affecting Vaxxine Web Accelerator's
performance or operation.
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Click the "Details" button to view more detailed statistics
(see below).
The following table provides a description of the statistics
that are displayed.
Original Data |
Size of the original (uncompressed) data. |
Actual Data |
Amount of data that has been sent by Vaxxine Web Accelerator. |
Savings Ratio |
Factor of reduction in data. E.g. A savings
ratio of 4.00 means that the actual data that has been
sent is 1/4 the size of the original data due to compression.
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Text-based |
Statistics regarding compression of text-based
content. |
Graphics |
Statistics regarding compression of graphical
content. |
Others |
Statistics regarding compression of content
that is neither text nor graphical. |
Upstream |
The total amount of original and compressed
data uploaded. |
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Viewing Vaxxine Web Accelerator's Performance
You can view your Vaxxine Web Accelerator's overall performance
using the Performance dialog.
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Click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon to
access the pop-up menu.
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Select "Performance..." to
display the Performance dialog.
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Click "Reset" to reset the statistics. This can be done at anytime
(even while browsing) without affecting Vaxxine Web Accelerator's
performance or operation.
From this screen you can view the size of the original (uncompressed)
data transferred through Vaxxine Web Accelerator, the actual (compressed) size
of the data, and your savings ratio. For example, a savings ratio
of 4.00 means that the actual data that has been sent is 1/4 the
size of the original data due to compression.
Also, this window displays the speed of your connection and the
estimated amount of downloading/uploading time that has been saved
by using Vaxxine Web Accelerator. Note that these two features
are only available when using a dial-up connection.
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Vaxxine Web Accelerator's Privacy Manager
Vaxxine Web Accelerator's Privacy Manager provides a safer and
more secure browsing environment. It can clear the cache, cookies,
and history in the Temporary Internet Files folder. This is the same
as clearing Internet Explorer's cache and the cache of any web browser
which uses the same cache folder.
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator taskbar icon to
access the pop-up menu.
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Select "Privacy Manager" to
bring up the Privacy Manager dialog.
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Please check off the items you would like to clear. For example.
If you want to clear the Internet Explorer's cache, please check
the option "Delete all cached webpages and other Temporary Internet
Files".
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Click on the "Run" button to start the actions. A dialog "The
selected actions have completed successfully" will appear once
all the items are deleted.
Click on the "OK" button to close this window.
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Click on the "Close" button to exit the Privacy Manager dialog.
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Running Diagnostics Tool
If you contact Vaxxine for technical support, the support personnel
may request that you send a diagnostics report to them. The diagnostics
report contains system information, such as your Vaxxine Web Accelerator
settings and connectivity, which will allow us to provide further
assistance.
To create a diagnostics report:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
to access the pop-up menu.
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Select "Help" > "Diagnostics" to
display the Diagnostics dialog.
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Click on "Create Report".
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Launch your email application, compose an email, paste the results
into the email (the results have already been copied to your
clipboard), and send it to Vaxxine.
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Getting Technical Help
To get more information on Vaxxine Web Accelerator and troubleshooting,
please visit our support website. You can access our support site
by right clicking on the system tray icon and selecting "Help", "Support
Website".
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Accessing Product Version Information
To view the product version information:
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Right-click on the Vaxxine Web Accelerator system tray icon
to access the pop-up menu.
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Select "Help" > "About" to
display the About dialog (see below).
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Updating Your Software
AutoUpdate will inform you of any major or minor software upgrades
to the Vaxxine Web Accelerator Service. By default, you will be notified of all
software upgrades.
To manually update Vaxxine Web Accelerator:
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Open the "Settings..." dialog.
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Click on the "Update" tab.
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Select "Update Now" to upgrade to the latest version.
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Uninstalling Vaxxine Web Accelerator
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Under the Windows Control Panel, select "Add or Remove Programs".
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Select Vaxxine Web Accelerator and click Remove.
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The uninstaller will launch and guide you through the uninstallation
procedure.
NOTE: This only Uninstalls the software! If you
wish to discontinue use of the Vaxxine Web Accelerator service, you
must visit the "Remove
from Account" page to discontinue the service. If you do not
do this, you WILL continue to be billed for the service.
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