Do keep the feature at its default setting - enabled. There's a reason the feature is now called 'Optimize Drives' instead of 'Disk Defragmenter'. Windows will NOT defrag a SSD as that article claims - even if you tell it too.

Don't disable it.Īlso, that article is simply wrong when it comes to defragging. If you keep Indexing enabled, Windows only has to search the Indexing database, which is much faster than searching the entire drive. If you disable Indexing, Windows has to search the drive every time you want to find something. And BECAUSE SSDs are so fast, Indexing is done much faster and way in the background so it impacts performance even less. Indexing in W10 is vastly improved compared to Indexing in XP. If disabling Indexing was better, Microsoft would disable it by default - just as they did with defragging when an SSD is detected. Windows, especially Windows 10 knows how to properly use its resources just fine.Īs far as that list of things you must do, it is so riddled with misinformation and bad advice, I say to totally ignore it! Windows 10 is not XP and users need to stop treating it that way. Click to expand.You don't need it or any optimization tools.

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