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Hurricane
An earlier set of utilities from McAfee that made a Windows PC faster. It provided such functions as memory compression, print spooling and disk file relocation.
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Definition: Hurricane
An earlier set of utilities from McAfee that made a Windows PC faster. It provided such functions as memory compression, print spooling and disk file relocation.
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