I've wondered for some time where the manual updates are stored prior to installing and what becomes of them. This has just been partly answered as I've just run newly installed JkDefrag. In the defrag .log report the vast majority of unmoveable files are Kaspersky and many of them are temp files, copied examples as follows:
0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\ids\i386
11:05:58 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\apu
11:05:58 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\vlns
11:05:58 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\wmuf
11:05:59 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\pdm
11:05:59 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\emu\i386
11:05:59 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\blst
11:06:00 0 4096 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\as\pas
0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\parctl\pc0006.dat
11:06:30 0 91553 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\klava\kdb\i386\base279c.kdc
11:06:31 0 2473 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\rt\en\retr.dat
11:06:31 0 21036 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\kdb\i386\ext094c.kdc
11:06:31 0 28299 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\kdb\i386\base833c.kdc
11:06:32 0 26697 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\kdb\i386\base579c.kdc
11:06:32 0 30201 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\kdb\i386\base568c.kdc
11:06:32 0 90149 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\parctl\pc0003.dat
11:06:33 0 27962 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\kdb\i386\base830c.kdc
11:06:33 0 28597 0 C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\temporaryFolder\bases\av\kdb\i386\base829c.kdc
Is there any need to keep these temp files? If not how is the best way to delete them?
There are also many other Kaspersky files which are unmoveable, any idea why?