Norton is running Defrag on my SSD's, NOT using trim!

[Dukmiester2]

Was downloading an update to one of my Steam games, on an Nvme drive, and it was taking forever and normally is only a couple minutes.

Noticed the drive was reporting 53% usage even after update was complete according to task manager, and the culprit was Norton!

It had somehow turned on the “optimize” feature by itself, and after looking in the windows control panel, system, defragment section, it was DEFRAGMENTING, NOT RE-TRIMMING, MY SSD!!

I immediately stopped it, went into norton, turned off the optimize feature.

I need to know how to permanently prevent norton from doing this, it WILL shorten the life of my drives, and is absolutely NOT needed for a high speed Nvme drive, I regularly trim my drives, NOT defrag, so this “feature’ of Norton’s is not needed or wanted and is going to damage drives.

Is there some kind of group policy setting in windows to completely block norton from behaving like this?

[SoulAsylum]

@Dukmiester2 Check this setting in Norton 360.

Disable defrag in Windows task scheduler:

You can also set your 3rd party SSD management suite, if one is installed to run retrim in task scheduler. Or via its setting which will add the task itself.

SA