Idle Time Optimizer

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I have a SSD as my boot drive.  I am running Win 7 64 bit. I note in the performance window of NIS 2013 that it indicates that my computer has been optimized.  Win 7 does not automatically optimize my SSD boot drive. Is NIS overriding that and defraging my SSD?  I have 3 regular HDDs in RAID5 and one non RAID HDD as well.

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boykincv wrote:

I have a SSD as my boot drive.  I am running Win 7 64 bit. I note in the performance window of NIS 2013 that it indicates that my computer has been optimized.  Win 7 does not automatically optimize my SSD boot drive. Is NIS overriding that and defraging my SSD?  I have 3 regular HDDs in RAID5 and one non RAID HDD as well.

Hi,
NIS should recognize the SSD and skip over it. If you choose you can turn off this feature

Open NIS -> Settings -> General -> turn off the feature

Stay well and surf safe

 

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Dick,

NIS 2013 may be skipping the SSD just like Win 7 does.  Until I find out if that is the case, I have done as you suggested and set the idle time optimize to off.

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boykincv wrote:

Dick,

NIS 2013 may be skipping the SSD just like Win 7 does.  Until I find out if that is the case, I have done as you suggested and set the idle time optimize to off.

Hi,
The optimizeer is almost a duplication of effort. It does what windows does so only one of them is really necessary :smileywink:

They are both using the same logis to determine which drives and when to optimize. With only one operational you should be fine.

Keep us posted

 

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Turn it off if you want to. It is unrelated to security. All it does is run the normal Windows defragmenter. If you turn it off, Windows will handle the defragmentation as set to your specification, once a month in your example. Disabling the Idle Time Optimizer will not cause any issues.

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Thanks. i thought that might be true. I don't  know now whether it's related to the Unauthorized Access Blocked (Open File) as I had previously thought as I just noticed when I  stopped using the computer and came back I saw those messages were on again, although I haven't see yet high CPU Usage and it wasn't as noisy (yet anyway). I still don't understand why I get those OPEN File messages some days for a few hours and other days continually. I turn my computer off every night.

 

Holly 

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Does this setting imply defragmentation of system hard drives? I have both SSD’s and HDD’s on my machine and use other gefrag tools and do not want Norton to handle this task. Thanks,