Automatic Defragmentation?

Hello Tamara,

I am sorry for the inconvenience. I would love to assist you. In the Dashboard, click the gear wheel button on the Maintenance tile (it's the leftmost one). The central AVG PC TuneUp configuration dialog opens, with an area for Automatic Maintenance and one for 1-Click Maintenance. Configure your settings here.

All maintenance tasks are activated by default for both Automatic Maintenance and 1-Click Maintenance. However, if you do not want certain maintenance tasks to be performed, you can exclude them from maintenance. If you would rather defragment your hard disk manually from "All Functions".

If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to contact us again.

I'm wondering whether AVG PC TuneUp is defragging my computer in the background while I'm using it. It might be another program doing this, but the only possible one that shows up in Task Manager is AVG PC TuneUp.

It's a problem for me as I've an extrenal hard drive connected to my PC, which has also been used to back up a Mac. I then get an error message telling me that while defragging it hasn't been possible to write some of my Mac data back to that hard drive.

Tamara, Thank you for letting us know and you're most welcome.

With these good instructions, I was able to deselect automatic defragmentation very easily.

Thanks very much!

With these good instructions, I was able to deselect automatic defragmentation very easily.

Thanks very much!