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* Downloading and installing the application will help you to go through ALIVE training without any video buffering issues due to low internet bandwidth or slow machine problems. Mac users should extract the zipped file and right-click to open the ALIVE application.

** Window users should extract the zipped file and double-click "alive.bat" to launch the ALIVE application. This approach does not require administrator privilages to install the application, and will help you to go through ALIVE training without any video buffering issues due to low internet bandwidth or slow machine problems.