I have three Auslogics programs on my PC. If you're curious 4420 is about the last version before they removed the update check disable - by 4500 the option was gone.ġ39.67.70.Disk Defrag A, BitReplica B+, Registry Cleaner A. I actually do keep 4420 around as a useful utility for when we deal with spinning disks - thus why I got the PUP/virus flag from win10. They must have done something post v6 that really made the shift away from utility and over-aggressive "upselling" because they started popping up as PUP/adware lists then. I didn't stick with it after that, i just reverted to 4420. slimy? is that the rest of the 4.x.x.x series was fine, so you likely didn't even notice the option was gone - then when things got junky way later around v5.5.x.x guess what? That's when you discovered you could no longer turn off the updates, and your old installer was gone. later versions (think v5.5.x.x) were\are much more pushy about adverts and more downloads etc. I really wish I knew more on what happened to the company - in their early days they actually had a decent reputation - think like CCleaner - their utils weren't essentials but they generally did the job described, with some eye candy (otherwise you'd just stick with Windows defrag, right?), and had some nice options that were useful in those days, like shutting down after defrag.Īt some point past version 4420 they removed the option to disable checking for updates - thus every time you run the program you will be pushed to install the latest version, which normally would be a good thing except. No more kid gloves I guess?Īuslogics Disk Defrag is one of those programs that started out good, built a good reputation, and then sadly slipped into the dumpster as something happened where Auslogics stated turning toward "scare-ware" tactics. It seems even Microsoft has deemed Auslogics Disk Defrag as not just a PUP but "Severe" and flags it for immediate removal.
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