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Exclude my External 1TB drive during Tune-Up

Locked Exclude my External 1TB drive during Tune-Up

  • Thursday, 8 October 2009 2:20 PM
     
     
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    I recently replaced my 100GB external backup drive with a 1TB unit.  Now, Tuneup is taking forever.  It starts at 2am and at 8AM it's still crunching on the external drive.  I emailed Tech Support and was told that it's not possible to exclude a drive.  This seems like a common option (remember it in Symantec products).  Is there any other way to skip having onecare scan and defrag a backup drive? 

       

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    • Thursday, 8 October 2009 2:55 PM
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      There is no way to configure the Defrag part of Tune-up, but you can exclude the external drive from being scanned by opening OneCare, clicking Change Settings - Virus and Spyware tab, Exclusions button. Use the Add Folder button on the next dialog to add the external drive to the list not to be scanned.
      -steve
      Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator