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Windows 8.1 is defragging my SSD in the background?

ItsDenn
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If anyone is having the same issue I found this site: http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/ 

And using the method described it finally wont defrag my drive but just run retrim when pc is idle. 

I have a sandisk 120 gb ultra II ssd for a few days now and I tunred off automatic drive defragmentation but when I wanted to defrag my hdd today I noticed windows saying that I it has defragged my ssd without my knowledge. 
Now after running the "Get-EventLog -LogName Application -Source "microsoft-windows-defrag" | sort timegenerated -desc | fl timegenerated, message" command in powershell I noticed it saying the same thing.

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Is this something I should be worried about? Or does it simply say defrag but its actually just optimizing it in a way that is acceptable for an SSD?

 

EDIT: http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-wind...an-avoid-this/ this helped me and the first picture shows now that my pc is only running retrim

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not surprising tbh. windows has a scheduled defrag by default, if you didnt disable it, its gonna do it.

you should probably disable that.  dont defrag an ssd

 

EDIT: @ItsDenn also, welcome to the forums, dont forget to follow your topics so you know when people reply to them

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Well I disabled my automatic scheduling but that resulted In windows doing it by itself, so what I did now is turn it on but excluding my c drive I hope that will work out just fine. I have read on other sites that when windows says it defragged an ssd they mean optimized and actually run TRIM commands, but I personally doubt that that is the cause because the powershell screenshot I made shows that my pc ran TRIM commands AND defrag commands on my ssd. I hope turning the automatic scheduling on and excluding my ssd fixes the problem. 

 

@Tsuki Thank you for replying and welcoming me to the forum! :) I will follow your advice. 

 

EDIT: I researched some more and found out that Norton Internet Security has a defragmentation program that runs on the boot volume. For those interested, the exact setting is: Idle Time Optimizer.

My dad insisted in using norton because he used to do it when he was using windows pc's years back but I doubt that norton is really worth paying for.

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EDIT: I researched some more and found out that Norton Internet Security has a defragmentation program that runs on the boot volume. For those interested, the exact setting is: Idle Time Optimizer.

My dad insisted in using norton because he used to do it when he was using windows pc's years back but I doubt that norton is really worth paying for.

norton has gotten better in the past few years, but i personally still think its trash. and i dont believe any antivirus is worth paying for(at least for a home computer) something like avg or avast will be a lot better.  and if he was using norton years back, he really should know better than to be using it now.

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