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scanreg
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« on: January 31, 2012, 07:44:19 AM »

I use a few external drives to backup stuff

When I connect them, CIS automatically starts probing them

In doing so, it eats tons of resources and bogs down the machine to the point of becoming un-usable

Is it possible to prevent auto scanning of the external drives, but still allow me to run manual scans of those drives when I want?

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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 10:19:43 AM »

Add the external drive to the exclusions maybe? ie G:/*
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 01:49:09 PM »

External media is always considered untrusted by design. Therefore, impossible to exclude.

There has been some discussion that there really is no need for a blanket distrust situation if CIS is using file hashes to recognize files. So hopefully version 6 will no longer have this design restriction.
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 09:33:22 PM »

Interesting, yes, would love that feature  Smiley

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