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[pd123]

Norton IS 19.6.2.10

Win XP Pro SP3 - same problem on two machines.

Just noticed that Insight Optimizer no longer appears to do anything - it runs for one or two seconds and stops. 

Tried manually launching Insight Optimizer (as an administrator) and it does the same.

If I manually run Windows Defrag on boot drive it does need to defrag and takes a long time, as expected. 

Any ideas why Insight Optimizer is not performing defrag please?

Thanks

[peterweb Worm Eliminator]

The Norton Optimizer may use a different threshold for fragmentation than the Windows defrag. Just because Norton does not do a defrag does not mean that your computer is not optimized. Many feel that defraging is not as important as we used to think it was.

[Kremmen Super Contributor]

... and at the other extreme, mine ran for about an hour at the weekend. Never noticed it before so I'm assuming its had a recent overhaul ?

[pd123]

If I manually launched the Optimizer it would 99% of the time run for at least a minute or so, now it never runs for more than 2 seconds.  I have no other defrag running so have relied on Norton.  This is the same on multiple machines

[peterweb Worm Eliminator]

It is aways possible that your system does not need optimizing. In that case, it would only run long enough to diagnose that it is not needed.