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- Another language related bug in Ccleaner (v5.38): - Select "Options", "Settings". - In this screen the text "Enable silent background updates" never gets "translated" no matter what language ( dutch, german, French, italian, vietnamese, .................. ) the user selects. To be fixed in the next version.

- I assume that MB keeps the data in memory and writes the info to disk only after the scan has been completed.

- Quite simple. It simply means that the file grows bit by bit and that it's being written to disk in bits and pieces as well, over a (comparatively) long time. How the bits and pieces are scattered is an indication of what spots on the drive the read/write head has visited during that write process. - I see this happen with a lot of other files as well. E.g. large files that are being downloaded by a downloadmanager.

- Windows Update today offered only 1 small update for Windows 7.

- Ouch. I LOVE ClassicShell.

- Thanks. Had this problem as well.

- Sometimes deleting all System Restore Points (SRP) won't help. Then one has to switch off the "System Restore point" feature in Windows and switch it on again. Only that way one can free up all disk space. Although I wouldn't recommend to do that in the first instance. - Yes, the combination of DEFRAGGLER and VSS (used for making SRPs) can lead to some unpredictable results. As you have seen. DEFRAGGLER seems to - somehow - trigger the VSS subsystem in Windows. It also has been reported that DEFRAGGLER deletes SRPs. - Although I also know that when one's HD gets filled too much, Windows will automatically delete one or more SRPs.

- I assume that MalwareBytes "absorbed" the technology into it products. Time to download JRT one more time. I hope the old algorithm will continue to work in the (near) future. - JRT is for 2 (or 3 ??) of my programs too aggressive. It forces me to re-install those programs again. Have to be very choosy when I want to use it.

- Run Antibody's WizTree. It will tell you what the size all the folders on your HD have. Including that folder called "System Volume Information" which contains the System Restore Points.

- Found something else that can be improved. When the user has clicked on "Analyze" then I think the program should open the "File list" tab (either before or after finishing the analysis). Currently that's not the case. Now DF keeps the active tab (e.g. "Search", "Health") open. - The behaviour, as descibed in the previous post, only occurs when I tell DF to save the settings in an *.ini file. I have done that because I have two copies of DF installed. Each with different settings (think: files in e.g. the "Exclude"list ). See the attached file for a zipped up copy of that *.ini file. Defraggler.zip

- Agree. Even when I manually move files to the end of the drive (which works much better) then DF sometimes has its own thoughts on where to place the files.

- Yes, DF still has a number of bugs. As a daily user of DF I have come across these bugs and reported them. And moving files "flawlessly" to the end of the drive is not "one of the strong points" of DF. I can't prove anything but I do get the impression that somehow Windows itself interferes with the program. Or perhaps some other program/Service interferes with Defraggler. - I could imagine that after a socalled "Clean boot" of Windows Defraggler would do its job(s) much better. Because then Windows is started with only the most essential Windows Services and programs. Perhaps then DF works much better ?

- My signature is gone !!!!!! The new forum look/format doesn't support that any more. (sob, sob, sob ). - And my avatar is (somewhat) "disfigured". A part of the ear of "Felix the cat" in my avatar has been truncated/cut off.

- @Trium: The link Hazelnut provided shows that Windows 7 SP 1 and Windows 8 come with .NET pre-installed. Whether you like it or not.

- I think you have used/selected the additional options ( "settings", "options") and then the program will move selected files/folders to the end of the drive. - I personally made the program move non-system files to the end of the drive and system files to the beginning of the drive. I think that this will help my system to be as fast as possible.

- Try if running Tweaking's Windows Repair fixes the problem. And makes sure that you - at least - run repair #5.

A follow up on the "Windows Defender" problem/bug (see also previous posts). - In a thread on "BleepingComputer" I came across this SPECCY snapshot from a Win 7 system. http://speccy.piriform.com/results/U5U22OfLXWg37BF1XModA7W This snapshot reports the user has the Windows Defender disabled. And that's logical because he/she has MS Security Essentials (MSE) as an anti virus program. When a user installs MSE then it automatically disables Windows Defender and the Windows Defender Service. - But on my Win 7 system I have disabled the Windows Defender Service and I didn't install MSE but nonetheless SPECCY reports that Windows Defender is "Enabled". Conclusion: SPECCY pulls up the wrong info from the wrong spot and then - of course - draws the wrong conclusion. To be fixed in a/the next SPECCY version !!!!

- Re-installed Win 7 SP 1 some 10 days ago and I am still busy moving files from selected folders (e.g. "c:\windows") to the beginning of the drive but DF isn't "cooperating too much". Because when I remove that folder from the "Exclude" list then DF does remove that folder (for a while). But after a new restart that folder is back in the "Exclude" list. It's driving me nuts. Talking about reliability. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ......................

- Makes perfect sense. - But then I would expect that the feature "Move files to end of drive" would also take LOTS of time to perform that task. Seems that that feature ("Move files to end of drive") uses a different algorithm. Don't know what to make of it but the difference is too large to "remain under the radar". (I use the program every day to keep all non-system files away from the beginning of the C: drive)

- Came across another ugly thing that can be improved in DF v2.21. - Unintentionally I added all the folders except one (or two ??) of my C: drive to the list of folders that were to be excluded from defragging. Those one or two folders contained about 60 MB of data. Then I told DF to "Defrag Freespace" my C: drive. It took DF some two hours to perform this operation. And that for a mere 60 MB of data !!!!

- Bug in the installation program of SPECCY v1.31. Take the following steps: 1) Start the installation program. 2) Change the language from english (the default language) to "Nederlands/Dutch". 3) The word "More" doesn't get translated. It should be "Verder" or "Meer". 4) Choose "More" and then another english word ("Back") shows up. That should be "Terug". These are clearly 2 bugs in the programcode because when I change the language to german, japanese, latvian, russian or spanish these 2 words remain in english and don't get "translated". (Didn't try other languages). - I also noticed that translators for a number of languages need to increase the amount of translated text strings. Seems they didn't "receive the message" that the amount of text strings has increased.

- Noticed something interesting/odd. When one downloads one ".NET security & quality rollup" from the MS Update Catalogus website, then one downloads 4 seperate files. The entire "Rollup" contains 4 files. 2 files then are for one specific .NET version and 2 for all .NET versions.

As time goes by WizTree will support more and more languages. Quote from the Antiboy software website: WizTree 3.00 now supports multiple languages, but we need your help! Please click here to find out how to add a translation. Currently available translations are below... ( http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/ )

- I'll provide some more info (See previous post). - The SPECCY (v1.31) snapshot (see my signature) says that the "Windows Defender" is disabled/stopped on my Windows 7 system. But the same SPECCY snapshot also tells me (under the header "Windows Defender") that "Windows Defender" has been enabled. A question for people who have a Win 8 or Win 10 system: Does the same issue surface on those Operating Systems ?

- SPECCY v1.31 still fails to report the proper status of the Windows Defender Service. I disabled that Service but SPECCY still think that it's running. Seems SPECCY is pulling up the wrong info to determine whether or not this Service is running.