Windows Live OneCare ?'s

> OneCare discussions should go to the Windows Live OneCare forum here:
> http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsO...=1001&SiteID=2
> Use the 1.5 topic folder for v1.5 beta discussions.
>
> "Dr. Heywood Floyd" <dhfloyd@2010.org> wrote:
>

>> 1 - Tune-Up has a schedule setting but no On/Off that I can find. Is there one?

> No.
>

>> 2 - Tune-Up did a defrag on all three of my drives "C", "D" and "E". Is there a way to prevent
>> this - to have it only defrag a selected drive? My "C" drive is my working drive and I have XP
>> pro on "E" that I use for testing. I'd just as soon an application that I'm running from a
>> chosen, booted OS 'stay home'. It has NO business going outside it's installed drive -
>> *especially* without asking!!

> This is not possible at this time. Defrag will defrag all drives. There is a
> thread in the forum where a developer from the OneCare team has asked for
> feedback regarding this very topic -
> http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsO...91455&SiteID=2
>

>> 3 - Backup only gives choices of to CD or an external drive. Is there a way to have it backup
>> to a internal drive? I installed the "D" drive to use exclusively for storing a mirror image of
>> my "C" drive as a backup. I may allow Live OneCare to backup there if there is a way. ??

> This is not an option at this time. Disable the backup in OneCare and use the
> backup functionality of Vista if you want to backup to an internal drive.
>
> -steve
> --
> Stephen Boots
> MVP Windows Live
> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
> sboots@mvps.org

>Thank you for that thread.
>
>It appears the posters there are saying they can not/will not use Tune-Up in it's present form.
> I agree. However, since there is NO way of disabling it within Live OneCare I'll have no
>choice but to not use the entire Windows Live OneCare package. I SURE hope there is a choice
>within Vista to NOT use it. It's a Vista deal-breaker if we don't have choices. We, simply,
>*CAN'T* allow things to be done to out systems that we don't want and especially in ways that
>may be harmful.

> Thank you for that thread.
>
> It appears the posters there are saying they can not/will not use Tune-Up
> in it's present form. I agree. However, since there is NO way of
> disabling it within Live OneCare I'll have no choice but to not use the
> entire Windows Live OneCare package. I SURE hope there is a choice within
> Vista to NOT use it. It's a Vista deal-breaker if we don't have choices.
> We, simply, *CAN'T* allow things to be done to out systems that we don't
> want and especially in ways that may be harmful.
>
>
>
>
> StephenB wrote:

>> OneCare discussions should go to the Windows Live OneCare forum here:
>> http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsO...=1001&SiteID=2
>> Use the 1.5 topic folder for v1.5 beta discussions.
>>
>> "Dr. Heywood Floyd" <dhfloyd@2010.org> wrote:
>>

>>> 1 - Tune-Up has a schedule setting but no On/Off that I can find. Is
>>> there one?

>> No.
>>

>>> 2 - Tune-Up did a defrag on all three of my drives "C", "D" and "E". Is
>>> there a way to prevent this - to have it only defrag a selected drive?
>>> My "C" drive is my working drive and I have XP pro on "E" that I use for
>>> testing. I'd just as soon an application that I'm running from a
>>> chosen, booted OS 'stay home'. It has NO business going outside it's
>>> installed drive - *especially* without asking!!

>> This is not possible at this time. Defrag will defrag all drives. There
>> is a
>> thread in the forum where a developer from the OneCare team has asked for
>> feedback regarding this very topic -
>> http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsO...91455&SiteID=2
>>

>>> 3 - Backup only gives choices of to CD or an external drive. Is there a
>>> way to have it backup to a internal drive? I installed the "D" drive to
>>> use exclusively for storing a mirror image of my "C" drive as a backup.
>>> I may allow Live OneCare to backup there if there is a way. ??

>> This is not an option at this time. Disable the backup in OneCare and use
>> the
>> backup functionality of Vista if you want to backup to an internal drive.
>>
>> -steve
>> --
>> Stephen Boots
>> MVP Windows Live
>> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
>> sboots@mvps.org