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I don't use Norton 360 as my antivirus on my Win 10 Pro v21H2 laptop, and here's what Disk Optimizer (with default settings) and Automatic Maintenance report today (0) for my SSD. Volume Shadow Copy is enabled when you manually turn on Windows System Restore, which is a feature that allows you to roll back to a previous version of the OS.Windows also use the Automatic Maintenance feature to automate the defragmentation or optimization process.' Typically, SSD is defragged once a month by default if you’ve Volume Shadow Copy feature enabled. That Windows Latest article states in part that:

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You might also find some useful information in the July 2017 How-To Geek article Don’t Waste Time Optimizing Your SSD, Windows Knows What Its Doing and the Sept 2020 Windows Latest article Windows 10 Update Finally Fixes Annoying SSD Drive Issue.

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I don't know all the specifics of how the defragmentation and the TRIM/retrim of my SSD drive is handled by the Disk Optimizer app versus the daily Automatic Maintenance tasks, but the April 2017 PC World article When to Defrag a Hard Drive, TRIM an SSD and Perform Other Storage Tasks, Or Notexplains the difference between a defrag and TRIM. Because of that, the Last run time can be up to a month old'.ĭepending on your OS, you might also have an Automatic Maintenance task (Control Panel | System and Security | Security and Maintenance | Maintenance | Automatic Maintenance) that runs a variety of daily tasks in the background, including disk optimization. For example, the Scheduled Task section of the MS support article defrag notes that ' Changing the frequency of the scheduled task does not affect the once per month cadence for the SSDs' and that ' If you skip analysis, you won't see an updated Last run time in the Optimize Drives app.

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What is your Windows operating system, and do you have a SATA HDD or SSD? What is the total size of your drive(s) and how much free disk space does it have? Is System Restore (normally disabled by default on Win 10 and Win 11 computers) enabled on your system?ĭisk optimization (Start | Widows Administrative Tools | Defragment and Optimize Drives) is handled differently by Windows depending on your Windows OS, the type of hard drive in your system, and whether System Restore is enabled or disabled. As a result, my drives may go weeks or even months sometimes without any optimization. It simply shuts it off, and leaves my disks unoptimized until I manually go in and optimize them myself.

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However, whenever Norton gets a software revision update, I have reason to believe it's hijacking my Windows Disk Optimization schedule and turning it off completely.I have all Norton Automatic Tasks and the Idle Time Optimizer disabled.

I prefer to let Windows do my disk optimization, and I prefer it be on a schedule I dictate.

Is there any way to permanently prevent this from happening? Additionally, looking at Norton’s Background Tasks, it shows that the Disk Optimizer has “Never” been ran, so why does it continue to hijack and disable my Windows Disk Optimization schedule? It concerns me that any Norton product would do this, whether deliberately, or by some type of program glitch.Īnd of course, I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled Norton (with and without the NRnR tool) countless times trying to resolve this. It does not (nor should it) replace it with its own schedule, as I have all Norton Automatic Tasks and the Idle Time Optimizer disabled. However, whenever Norton gets a software revision update, I have reason to believe it's hijacking my Windows Disk Optimization schedule and turning it off completely. For years now I’ve been fighting an ongoing battle on multiple computers with Norton Security and the Windows Disk Optimization schedule.

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