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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on December 02, 2014, 05:20:15 PM
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hi - recently discovered my hard drive had lots of used space on it in the system volume information folder, did checking online, and found out that it was because avast 2015 changes the system protection settings (view system settings | system protection | configure c drive) to 50% of the space. this was NOT an issue when i had the previous version of avast installed, and when i reset the slider to a smaller number and reboot the machine, it gets reset back to 50% of the space.
i am on windows 7, using only part of avast (using it with comodo), i don't have web browser protection on.
what do i need to modify in avast so that it will stop resetting my system protection settings?
thanks for any help you can provide on this.
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Sounds like the NG feature which you can remove via the "change installed features" option in remove programs.
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Hello! I have this exact problem too!
After I installed newest Avast, 25th November, I noticed that my system restore point max usage jumped from 4% to 50%. I cannot see any other reasons which would interfere with it, except Avast!. I haven't installed recently any new windows updates, any programs or updated my programs.
Is there a way to turn this off? or disable Avast from changing it
I've been happy with Avast! since 2008 or as far as I can remember, no complaints. This problem scared me so I made an account and hoping to resolve this
Thank you :)
edit: and it keeps jumping back to 50%
edit2: I don't have any other Avast products like this NG
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NG is part of all versions of Avast and you can remove it by going to control panel > programmes and features > select Avast > select change
Remove the tick from NG and continue from there
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@ Bob g
Check and make sure you 'untick' Grimefighter in the install options in the middle (tools) colum.
See screeshot
Ah, Essexboy is fast!
;D
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Thank you. I will try this and report here if this problem does not occur within a week! :)
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I uninstalled NG after that I rebooted where max usage went back to 50%. I hope this stops now after this?
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thank you for the quick responses! i'm going to try it out now and see if it works, will report back after i've done a couple clean boots and (hopefully) verify that it works.
also, i *thought* i didn't install grimefighter, but i may be wrong.
thanks again!
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thank you for the quick responses! i'm going to try it out now and see if it works, will report back after i've done a couple clean boots and (hopefully) verify that it works.
also, i *thought* i didn't install grimefighter, but i may be wrong.
thanks again!
There is a free element available for the free version, not the full functionality - so you would have to have specifically unchecked the GrimeFighter during installation (as in the previously attached images).
Avast would hope that having used the free element that you would want the full paid version.
Personally I'm not a fan of optimisation programs.
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thanks essexboy, craigb, davidr, schmidthouse for your help; your suggestions worked and my hard disk space is where i'd like it to be.
i believe i uninstalled grimefighter from one of the earlier versions of avast, so i'm not sure why it would have reappeared, but david, you were right. it was there and i unchecked it, along with ng and one or two of the other features.
again, thanks for your help!
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You're welcome.
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Actualyl the increase is only needed to create the images. Once done, you can decrease that setting...
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Sorry to bump this old thread, but I've just realised the same thing; my hard drive space kept dwindling every day, and when I looked in the restore settings found the bar was set to 50%, with a whopping 250GB used up (although oddly, only a dozen or so actual restore points created)! I uninstalled NG, deleted the restores and set the bar back to 10% (is that Windows 7's default? I've no idea), and tested again with this NG component; once again the bar was at 50%.
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Sorry to bump this old thread, but I've just realised the same thing; my hard drive space kept dwindling every day, and when I looked in the restore settings found the bar was set to 50%, with a whopping 250GB used up (although oddly, only a dozen or so actual restore points created)! I uninstalled NG, deleted the restores and set the bar back to 10% (is that Windows 7's default? I've no idea), and tested again with this NG component; once again the bar was at 50%.
Maybe you should give the latest beta release a try. It addresses some of the problem associated with NG.
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=165749.0 (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=165749.0)
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Thanks for the reply; I'll look into it. I wonder how many people are having the same issue with space but just don't realise this could be causing it. Although it had 'only' used up 250GB the max 50% according to Windows 7 would have been about 750GB (!), which would have basically wasted my entire free space, eventually (in fact I don't think I even had this much left). Too bad I didn't Google the issue before uninstalling a lot of downloadable games.
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The problem seems deeper than this.
Today, Sat 14\02\15, I attempted to install an update to an application I test for a software maker.
I am administrator with full permissions including ownership of hard drives in my PC, yet an error message kept popping up saying I did NOT have permission to change files on the drive the application is installed too.
After much hair tearing, I discovered the culprit is AVAST. It has changed MY permission settings because of that damned Grimefighter or NG thing that is set to install by default.
This is wrong. Worse, because I do not install to the default C drive location, Avast has not appeared in my program manager so I can't , yet, find a way to get rid of this annoying and useless to me feature.
Thanks Avast, as another person mentioned, I have been very happy with Avast for many years, but this is not right.
I'm angry, you do not select feature for us, we do. End of point!
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Avast does not change permissions on the main drive
If you use custom install rather than just click away you can select the elements to install. You can also uninstall them from control panel > programs and features > Avast > change
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People interested about NG and Windows System Protection might want to check out my new topic: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=166697.0
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OK I realise I'm "necroposting" here but it's directly related to the topic: what is this "NG" of which you speak?
I jave looked on two machines, one with Avast Free and another Avast Pro, and neither has any component remotely like NG. Since no-one in this thread has identified what it is supposed to do, I'm completely in the dark here...
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Its now called Secure Virtual Machines. Pretty much its sandbox for where avast tests files at least thats from my understanding.