AntiVir Premium overview::User interface and operation

Control Center

The Control Center is designed to monitor the protection status of your computer systems and control and operate the protection components and functions of AntiVir Premium.

•  Starting and ending of Control Center

•  Control Center operation

The Control Center window is divided into three areas: the menu bar, the navigation bar and the detail window view:

• Menu bar: In the Control Center menu bar, you can access general program functions and information on AntiVir Premium.

• Navigation area: In the navigation area, you can easily swap between the individual sections of Control Center. The individual sections contain information and functions of the program components of AntiVir Premium and are arranged in the navigation bar according to activity. Example: Activity Overview - Section Status.

• View: This window shoes the section selected in the navigation area. Depending on the section, you will find buttons to execute functions and actions in the upper bar of the detail window. Data or data objects are displayed in lists in the individual sections. You can sort the lists by clicking in the box defining how you wish to sort the list.

Starting and ending of Control Center

To start the Control Center, the following options are available:

• Double-click the program icon on your desktop

• via the AntiVir Premium program entry in the start menu | program.

• via the Avira AntiVir Premium tray icon.

Close the Control Center via the menu command Close in the menu File or by clicking on the close tab in the Control Center.

Control Center operation

To navigate in the Control Center

• Select an activity in the navigation bar.

• The activity opens and other sections appear. The first section of the activity is selected and displayed in the view.

• If necessary, click another section to display this in the detail window.

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• Select a section via the menu View.

Note
You can activate the keyboard navigation in the menu bar with the help of the [ALT] key. If navigation is activated, you can move within the menu with the arrow keys. With the Return key you activate the active menu item.
To open or close menus in Control Center, or to navigate within the menus, you can also use the following key combinations: [Alt] + underlined letter in the menu or menu command. Hold down the [Alt] key  if you want to access a menu, a menu command or a submenu.

To process data or objects displayed in the detail window:

• highlight the data or object you wish to edit.

To highlight multiple elements (elements in columns), hold down the control key or the shift key while selecting the elements.

• Click the appropriate button in the upper bar of the detail window to edit the object

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