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  • Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:07 PM
     
     
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    I am sure this is posted 1000 times but maybe at 1001 someone will take notice.

    My C$ drive is using a SSD (in a RAID no less) and should not be defragged. OneCare Tune-Up will defrag this disk anyway. I disabled defrag by messing with the registry in a way that one should not do but it is better then trashing my SSD disk drive or not being able to use the anti-virus software I already paid for.

    Ideally the Tune-up should adhere to the defrag schedule that is already setup through Windows Disk Defragmentor program which I have confiugred to run weekly and to ignore my C drive. It makes no sense to have 2 defrag schedules.

    If OneCare is not able to do that then you should at least have the same confiugration options as Windows Disk Defragmentor so that I can disable defrag by drives or disable defrag altogether.

    That is perhaps the most daunting thing is that you cannot disable defrag or the tune-up feature at all.
       

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    • Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:33 PM
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      Anyone reading this should see this post for a workaround:
       

      http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/onecarestarttuneup/thread/9ed48b93-cdc7-4314-9d87-5d01f5e10989/

      Yes, it has been posted many times before and I still don't know why this was not made a configurable option from teh beginning. At any rate, this is the last version of OneCare, so it is a moot point.
      Announcement 11-18-08

      -steve

      Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
         
      • Friday, May 22, 2009 6:28 PM
         
         
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        Anyone reading this should see this post for a workaround:
         

        http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/onecarestarttuneup/thread/9ed48b93-cdc7-4314-9d87-5d01f5e10989/

        Yes, it has been posted many times before and I still don't know why this was not made a configurable option from teh beginning. At any rate, this is the last version of OneCare, so it is a moot point.
        Announcement 11-18-08

        -steve

        Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator

        This being a moot point, WHY even have the trial ver out there for me to screw with??

        Going to run the trial only to find that it is nolonger usable?

        Get real!

         
           
        • Friday, May 29, 2009 3:33 PM
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          One Care will be available for purchase through June 30 and will be fully supported through the end of 2010. Because no new features will be added does not make a product unusable.
          Jim - MVP Windows Live - Forum Moderator - Live One Care - Live Mesh