My C drive (boot drive) is an SSD (solid state drive). It is harmful for SSD drives to be defragmented and yet every week it is being defragmented (as I can see in the "last run" date in the Windows Disk Defragmenter Utility") . There are 2 things on my computer that will cause defragmentation to occur. Windows 7 itself or Norton Anti-Virus Optimizer that defrags the boot drive (in the optimization section of their software… and why does an anti-virus program want to defrag my disk!). If you are not aware of this look in the "Norton Help Center" under the title "Optimizing your boot volume". I want my SSD NOT to be defragged but I want my regular HHD (E: in my case) to be defragmented.
I initially told the "Disk Defragmenter" utility in Windows 7 not to defrag the C drive, I then turned off scheduled defragmentation completely, and then in the Windows 7 "Task Scheduler" I disabled the defrag task completely so no defrag is occurring through Windows. That leaves Norton. I have turned off the "Idle Time Optimizer" in the Miscellaneous Settings Window of Norton (and I have also turned off "Idle time scans" just in case that started the optimizer). But the C disk is still being "optimized". How do I turn off optimization completely so that Norton stops defragging my SSD boot drive.
Thanks