how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
i us e windows xp.
any tips please ?

ray

ray wrote:
> how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
> i us e windows xp.
> any tips please ?

That option is available when you right-click the AVG icon in the System
Tray.

Daave wrote:
> ray wrote:
>> how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
>> i us e windows xp.
>> any tips please ?
>
> That option is available when you right-click the AVG icon in the System
> Tray.
>
>
The answer is correct, but you don't need to turn off AVG to defrag.

Bill

Bill Sharpe wrote:
> Daave wrote:
>> ray wrote:
>>> how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
>>> i us e windows xp.
>>> any tips please ?
>>
>> That option is available when you right-click the AVG icon in the
>> System Tray.
>>
>>
> The answer is correct, but you don't need to turn off AVG to defrag.

I think it's a very good idea. This way an automatic update or scan
can't run. IIRC, turning off the screensaver before a defrag is a good
idea, too.

"Daave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Bill Sharpe wrote:
>> Daave wrote:
>>> ray wrote:
>>>> how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
>>>> i us e windows xp.
>>>> any tips please ?
>>>
>>> That option is available when you right-click the AVG icon in the
>>> System Tray.
>>>
>>>
>> The answer is correct, but you don't need to turn off AVG to defrag.
>
> I think it's a very good idea. This way an automatic update or scan
> can't run. IIRC, turning off the screensaver before a defrag is a good
> idea, too.

Windows XP defrag is not sensitive to those problems like Windows 9x was.
Also, you should know the AVG update and scan schedule times and be able to avoid them.

Richard in AZ wrote:
> "Daave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Bill Sharpe wrote:
>>> Daave wrote:
>>>> ray wrote:
>>>>> how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
>>>>> i us e windows xp.
>>>>> any tips please ?
>>>>
>>>> That option is available when you right-click the AVG icon in the
>>>> System Tray.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The answer is correct, but you don't need to turn off AVG to defrag.
>>
>> I think it's a very good idea. This way an automatic update or scan
>> can't run. IIRC, turning off the screensaver before a defrag is a
>> good idea, too.
>
> Windows XP defrag is not sensitive to those problems like Windows 9x
> was. Also, you should know the AVG update and scan schedule times and
> be
> able to avoid them.

Old habits die hard. :-)

Thanks for the info.

"ray" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> how do i turn off avg antivirus 7.5 while i defrag.
> i us e windows xp.
> any tips please ?
>
> ray
With AVG antivirus Free Edition 7.5 there is a single Automatic update
scheduled every day and there is no way from within the "control center" to
disable it from happening unfortunately. You could disable AVG from running
at startup using MSConfig and then restart every time before running defrag.
You can disable Resident Shield inside "Control Center" with
View|Components|Resident Shield . Uncheck the box "Turn on AVG Free Resident
Shield protection". Disabling of real-time scanning is unnecessary when
running disk defragmentation anyway.

--
Allan

"Allan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>With AVG antivirus Free Edition 7.5 there is a single Automatic update
>scheduled every day and there is no way from within the "control center" to
>disable it from happening unfortunately.

Wrong. Check again.