Want to block Auslogics disc defrag from offering updates

[comandoed]

I have Win 10 and Panda free AV and use Win Firewall.

How do I keep Auslogics disc defrag from bugging me all the time with Update offers?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

1. Uninstall it. Windows has defrag built in and there are free alternatives that don't bug you

2. Look for the update utility (assuming it has one) in msconfig and kill it.

 

[comandoed]

1. Uninstall it. Windows has defrag built in and there are free alternatives that don't bug you

2. Look for the update utility (assuming it has one) in msconfig and kill it.

1. Dont like the slow Windows defrag.
2. Startup section of Task Manager does not show Auslogics. Nor the Ccleaner startup utility.

 

[Flyfisherman]

3. Windows inbuilt Defrag has the default schedule to automatically run at certain weekdays and times - repeatably - you can change this to disable it all together and run it manually when You feel comfortable to do so.
If You have a SSD - You must be certain of this: never defrag a SSD.

Start > just type 'defrag' > in the list click 'Defragmentation and optimize device' => change its settings for each drive.

Btw. No need to use a third party defrag s/w.
Most of them uses Microsoft filesystem NTFS anyway to defrag according to MS system..

 

[comandoed]

3. Windows inbuilt Defrag has the default schedule to automatically run at certain weekdays and times - repeatably - you can change this to disable it all together and run it manually when You feel comfortable to do so.
If You have a SSD - You must be certain of this: never defrag a SSD.

Start > just type 'defrag' > in the list click 'Defragmentation and optimize device' => change its settings for each drive.

I do not want to use the slow Windows inbuilt defrag thats why am using Auslogics.

 

[Flyfisherman]

3. Windows inbuilt Defrag has the default schedule to automatically run at certain weekdays and times - repeatably - you can change this to disable it all together and run it manually when You feel comfortable to do so.
If You have a SSD - You must be certain of this: never defrag a SSD.

Start > just type 'defrag' > in the list click 'Defragmentation and optimize device' => change its settings for each drive.

I do not want to use the slow Windows inbuilt defrag thats why am using Auslogics.

Don't using all together?
Auslogics I believe(?) are using Microsoft's algorithm for this, perhaps in a more efficient way.
It is essentially the very same thing that is free and inbuilt to the system.
Best regards from Sweden

 

[JackNaylorPE]

1. Dont like the slow Windows defrag.

I use it and it takes about 9 seconds .... of course it runs when Im sleeping so I wouldn't notice if it did take long. If done on a schedule, it takes very little time. If Al defrag taking up your time while you are watching it than that is wasted time. Otherwise, if you don't need to have your PC on at night, then it just will run in the background and you won't notice it ran and completed whilyou were otherwise engaged.

As for SSDs and defragging, just about everything you will read on defragging SSDs is wrong, Windows is defragging SSD once a month.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndCompleteStoryDoesWindowsDefragmentYourSSD.aspx

 

[Flyfisherman]

1. Dont like the slow Windows defrag.

I use it and it takes about 9 seconds .... of course it runs when Im sleeping so I wouldn't notice if it did take long. If done on a schedule, it takes very little time. If Al defrag taking up your time while you are watching it than that is wasted time. Otherwise, if you don't need to have your PC on at night, then it just will run in the background and you won't notice it ran and completed whilyou were otherwise engaged.

As for SSDs and defragging, just about everything you will read on defragging SSDs is wrong, Windows is defragging SSD once a month.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndCompleteStoryDoesWindowsDefragmentYourSSD.aspx

Interesting blog post, however incorrect in most.
AnandTech had made a serious article about this some years ago in which I trust more to than this.
First of all one must understand how the nand-memory cells in an SSD works.
AnandTech: Understanding TLC NAND

It is not necessary at all to defragment a SSD, the way how data is stored are solely handled by its memory controller and its inbuilt firmware and not by any way from the operating system like Windows or Linux.
In contrary, start defragging a SSD will cause lagg, the reading times will almost certain reach 200ms of delays in access times - that is not the way one would like it to be.

It is somewhat correct however that defragmentation do very little to the memory cells life span - if these are of TLC-nand.
With 3D V-Nand however it is a totally different quest. That blog-post above, the author is talking about something he doesn't fully understand, it seems to me.

Best Regards from Sweden