jimbb Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Hi Guys, I am having an issue with saving my settings for my C drives disk space usage. I am trying to limit max usage to 10% of total drive space (9.81 GB). (Location: Advanced System Settings - System Protection - C Drive - Configure - Disk Space Usage : Max Usage) Each time I restart though it goes to 50%. It doesn't save the settings. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks Laptop: Gigabyte P34G Windows 8.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggers Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Are you using Avast! 2015 as your Anti-Virus? I think at the moment the only solution for Avast! users is to disable NG (or you may have to remove it by going through Control Panel -> Programs -> Avast -> Change)...Whether they acknowledge this as a bug and sort it out is somehing that may happen in the future but then Avast! cripples windows restore for users anyway unless they disable self protection! https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=163039.0 If your not said product i would be very surprised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbb Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 Yes I do have avast. Thanks for your reply that solves the issue then. One more thing, how dangerous is it to remove NG? doe sit basically cripple the antivirus? Do you recommend switching to another antivirus? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggers Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 It does but not by very much (imo). It seems it basically for analysis of running software which obviously hasn``t had a sig defined for it yet. This is from one of the Avast! devs Some information about new avast! NG component: our classic sandbox technology (used for DeepScreen, Sandbox and SafeZone components) restricts a sandboxed application to modify your system. As Windows OS is quite rich for various APIs and frameworks, we need to monitor more and more OS functions invoked from the unknown applications. This works perfect for Sandbox/SafeZone, but it's not enough for DeepScreen analysis. When a malware is analyzed in DeepScreen, we'd like to allow it to behave freely without any restrictions and monitor only its activities. Unfortunately, we might end up very soon if it tries e.g. to load a kernel-mode driver (you can't monitor kernel-mode, and if it gets there, it can control your entire OS, hide itself, connect to internet, ...), or use some undocumented system calls on 64-bit OSes (we use own hypervisor driver to fully protect 64-bit OSes, but this doesn't work on older PCs or with disabled VT-X/AMD-V feature in BIOS). Avast! NG helps us to analyze malware real-time totally without any restrictions - it can load a kernel driver, it can delete any Windows files, format your volume, everything it wishes. The malware is executed on your OS using VirtualBox engine and the entire OS with malware is monitored. NG was heavily tested for a few months by our user base and we have fixed various HW/SW conflicts and tuned performance. After avast installation, it takes a couple of minutes to prepare NG (this is executed in the background with normal priority in this Beta, it'll be on idle priority in final release). So you`ll stilll get all the protection offered by the various shields If your a safe surfer and don`t have multiple people (young kids especially) using the pc you should be more than fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbb Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 Thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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