Hi there. First off, thank you all for a great product. I’ve used Avast for years and absolutely love its utility.
I defragmented my computer yesterday and am looking at the report. It seems that there are many small fragments created by avast that the defragmenter could not move. They are mostly definitions and updates. These are small, but are scattered across the end of my disk. The reason i defragmented was to have the unused space free at the end of my disk for some large files i’ll be dealing with. I was wondering if there was any way to defragment without removing Avast?
Puran does give a listing of the top 10 fragmented files/directories in it’s Last Report tab under the heading of The following files/directories are still fragmented - Top 10. In this listing, mine are most usually restore points.
Perhaps d.justins is seeing a similar report in whatever he/she is using for defragmenting.
No, on contrary. Both will use disk space. I have Windows System Restore disabled.
Due to new technology of CTM, I would suggest you make backup of your data first.
The beta version is stable and corrects some issues of the actual stable release.
You need to register their forum to download CTM Beta.
This program gives you a graphical display of blocks relative to their position on the disk. Like i mentioned before, i’m using this program to defragment and leave large blocks of space at the edge of my disk.
In the graphical display i can view what blocks have been moved or not. Red blocks are immobile. The only red blocks i have are a few types of Avast files, including the definition files. I’m guessing they’re spread across the disk due to the time between updates. I was just wondering if there was internal way to bring all of the Avast definition files into one place on the disk instead of having it spread all over… as well as have it not blocking my free space.
This isn’t a huge issue as i do have enough space around these files. I was just interested if Avast had an internal solution or if they want to review how their program sits on the system disk.
A program cannot really affect how its files “sit on the disk” - it asks the operating system to create a file, and the OS does that. Where, it’s up to the operating system.
Yes, avast! updates signatures often, even multiple times a day, and every virus database has some 50MB… so it might cause the mentioned effect (because first a new virus database is created and loaded, and then the old one is removed) - but I don’t think there’s anything we could do about it.
I don’t think this is about fragmented files (thought I might be reading it wrong) - but even if it were, it’s still up to the OS to create the file.
I believe the original question is about the free space (being or not being in one continuous block).