How long does norton optimizer take

It will go to a black screen with a Windows message about waiting to shut down something that is running I have a feeling that putting Norton on Silent Mode avoids this but I've not been able really to verify this.

If you look at the various logs in Event VIewer you might get some clues to what is behind your situation. Hi huwyngr. Yes, I should have included some system information. When I tried to do a normal shut down last night it got to the blue screen that says the system is shutting down and has the spinning icon, but it just wouldn't do anything so I did the hard shut down.

I've seen the black screen you're talking about on other computers and that generally closes out within a few seconds for me. I unchecked the option to have Norton run a disk optimization on a full scan and instead ran it from Windows.

It took about 5 minutes. I then ran a chkdsk and found no errors. Everything seems to be back to normal. The reason is that elsewhere on CompuServe where I also do computing support we have one old timer who was a hard drive designer with several of the main hard drive makers. I trust his advice.

He says that with modern disk hard drives that defragging really does very little to help performance for a number of reasons:. Back to top. Reg: Aug Defrag does not change the amount of Disk Space. It neither increases or decreases space used or free. Windows Defrag runs every three days and optimises program and system startup loading.

To circumvent the problem, you need to start Windows 10 in Safe Mode. Once you enter the Safe Mode, start Disk Defragmenter again and it should work without any problems. If Windows Update cleanup is stuck or takes forever to run, after a while click on Cancel. The dialog box will close. Now run Disk Cleanup Tool again as administrator.

If you do not see these files offered for cleaning, then it means that the cleanup has been done. Click to expand I'm pretty sure it just scans then defrag's the drive. Sound advice, thanks for your help. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads. How to upgrade Win 10 to Win 11 on unsupported hardware.

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