Solved SDD Showing Fuller All of a Sudden

[DavidE]

LF,
Did you ever look in the Avast GUI > Settings > Tools to see what you have ?
You can also look in Control Panel > Programs and Features, select Avast and click Change.
You should be able to see what all is installed with Avast there, and uninstall options if you want to.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

0% does not work but 1GB should work. Use the proposed 3%. You want some restore points after all.

Why would I want restore points if I don't use System Restore (imaging is far more reliable)?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Can you turn SR on in the GUI and adjust the slider to the minimum ?
Then turn it back off if you don't want it on...

Tried that; no joy.

...I don't use Restore Points, I use Backup Images.

Same here. I never could get system Restore to work for me in Win 7 (it was hit and miss in XP) so I use Macrium Reflect to image my C: drive. I've never had a verified image fail and I had only one image fail to verify (I just reran MR and that image verified; stuff happens, I suppose).

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

LF,
Did you ever look in the Avast GUI > Settings > Tools to see what you have ?
You can also look in Control Panel > Programs and Features, select Avast and click Change.
You should be able to see what all is installed with Avast there, and uninstall options if you want to.

I did and didn't see anything that I though would be related. The thread on the Avast Forums kept referring to something called NG but, unless it means No Good, I have no idea what the bloody heck they are talking about. I couldn't find anything called NG in the GUI.

 

[Layback Bear]

Just a thought.

Turn off restore points and remove all restore points for a test.
Then keep using Avast as you normally would and see if Avast starts making restore points again.

From what I have read in the past; when Avast starts making restore points it moves your % from what has been set to 50% and starts loading your drive over a period of time.

 

[DavidE]

LF,
Did you ever look in the Avast GUI > Settings > Tools to see what you have ?
You can also look in Control Panel > Programs and Features, select Avast and click Change.
You should be able to see what all is installed with Avast there, and uninstall options if you want to.

I did and didn't see anything that I though would be related. The thread on the Avast Forums kept referring to something called NG but, unless it means No Good, I have no idea what the bloody heck they are talking about. I couldn't find anything called NG in the GUI.

Look for Secure Virtual Machine, or Sandbox...depending where you look.
They have made the naming confusing imho.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Just a thought.

Turn off restore points and remove all restore points for a test.
Then keep using Avast as you normally would and see if Avast starts making restore points again...

I did; no joy.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

LF,
Did you ever look in the Avast GUI > Settings > Tools to see what you have ?
You can also look in Control Panel > Programs and Features, select Avast and click Change.
You should be able to see what all is installed with Avast there, and uninstall options if you want to.

I did and didn't see anything that I though would be related. The thread on the Avast Forums kept referring to something called NG but, unless it means No Good, I have no idea what the bloody heck they are talking about. I couldn't find anything called NG in the GUI.

Look for Secure Virtual Machine, or Sandbox...depending where you look.
They have made the naming confusing imho.

Sandbox is an option in the paid version. I'm using the free one.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Someone in that thread at the Avast forums says:

"Removing the "Secure Virtual Machines" component resolves the issue."

For whatever that's worth. Can you find that component in the config?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Someone in that thread at the Avast forums says:

"Removing the "Secure Virtual Machines" component resolves the issue."

For whatever that's worth. Can you find that component in the config?

Nope, apparently it's not part of the freebie.

 

[DavidE]

Secure Virtual Machines is one of the components Avast installed for me when i updated from 2014 to 2015.
I have the free version, so i shouldn't even have the choice of installing it (as far as i know), but it did get installed.

That's what I commented on in my post here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-r...em-restore-allocation-amount.html#post3024784

 

[DavidE]

If you don't have it, maybe it isn't Avast that is causing your issue ???

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I just uninstalled Secure Virtual Machines using Programs and Features (bloody nice of bloody Avast to make it so easy to find ). I'm going to reboot in a bit.

 

[DavidE]

So they did the same thing to you they did to me

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

So they did the same thing to you they did to me

Yeah, the dirty ba...persons of questionable heritage. It took for-bloody-ever to reboot. My computer had to configure Windows updates (say what?) then do some cleanup before it finally got to the login screen. Yeesh!. I checked shadow copy again and got this:



My free space is now at 52.3GB! Woohooo! Yesss! Now to see how long that will last.

Thanks, everyone, for all your help!

 

[ignatzatsonic]

If I were to be smart or dumb enough to try Avast, is there a way to NOT install that virtual machine thingy at all, at the time of first installation?

Or do you have to install it and later try to uninstall it?

I should probably stick with MSE, but I have this overwhelming urge to not leave well enough alone.

 

[DavidE]

Great hearing you got your free space back !

I wonder why you can't set Max space smaller ?
Maybe whs or others will have some ideas ?
Have you run a SFC lately ?

My shadow storage looks like this

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

If I were to be smart or dumb enough to try Avast, is there a way to NOT install that virtual machine thingy at all, at the time of first installation?

Or do you have to install it and later try to uninstall it?

I should probably stick with MSE, but I have this overwhelming urge to not leave well enough alone.

I don't remember if I was given that option or not (at my age, the only thing I retain well is water!). Uninstalling the little bugger was easy once David pointed out where it was and how to get rid of it.

I've used Avast for several years now and this is the first real problem I've had with it (of course, it had to be a really sneaky one).

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Great hearing you got your free space back !

I wonder why you can't set Max space smaller ?
Maybe whs or others will have some ideas ?
Have you run a SFC lately ?

My shadow storage looks like this
View attachment 352890

Thanks!

I might be able to reduce the max space now but, frankly, 2.31GB isn't going to harelip the mayor and the governor so I'm not going to worry about it for now (if ever), especially since I've got a bit of a sinus headache and it's past my bedtime.

SFC? Meesa no unnastand.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

SFC? Meesa no unnastand.

sfc /scannow at a command prompt to check integrity of system files.