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Is there a way to disable the defrag portion of tune-up? I wld rather use a third party defragger that dosen,t do partial defrags. pls advise. Thanks.

Monday, June 2, 2008 3:15 PM

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There is no way to disable the defrag called by OneCare (it is the Windows Defrag utility, called via a "hook") via the OneCare options.

If you absolutely cannot live with Defrag running from OneCare's Tune-up, the following thread contains a workaround - though I don't recommend using it.

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3031338&SiteID=2

-steve

Monday, June 2, 2008 4:29 PM

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I would like to know this too!!

Dennis

Monday, June 2, 2008 3:36 PM
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There is no way to disable the defrag called by OneCare (it is the Windows Defrag utility, called via a "hook") via the OneCare options.

If you absolutely cannot live with Defrag running from OneCare's Tune-up, the following thread contains a workaround - though I don't recommend using it.

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3031338&SiteID=2

-steve

Monday, June 2, 2008 4:29 PM

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