SSD Win8 Norton 360 defrag

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Hello,

 

I am buying a laptop containing Win 8 and plan to install Norton 360 on it. The laptop has SSD only and I have read that the Norton 360 uses windows defragmentation, and if true should use the Win 8 defrag which senses the SSD's and instead trims it instead of defrag. But, I have also read of the 360 overriding the Win defrag and carrying out defrag on the SSD's (might be win 7).

 

Thus, do I have to disable the defrag and idle optimization in Norton settings and or does the 360 use win 8 defrag and will instead only trim the SSD during the scheduled defrag and idle optimization.

 

Thank you

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Hello,

 

I am buying a laptop containing Win 8 and plan to install Norton 360 on it. The laptop has SSD only and I have read that the Norton 360 uses windows defragmentation, and if true should use the Win 8 defrag which senses the SSD's and instead trims it instead of defrag. But, I have also read of the 360 overriding the Win defrag and carrying out defrag on the SSD's (might be win 7).

 

Thus, do I have to disable the defrag and idle optimization in Norton settings and or does the 360 use win 8 defrag and will instead only trim the SSD during the scheduled defrag and idle optimization.

 

Thank you

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Thank you,

 

So does 360 use the windows defrag or its own defrag?

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12BotG wrote:

Thank you,

 

So does 360 use the windows defrag or its own defrag?

Hi,

I think that Norton is using windows defrag rather than duplicating the effort.