Performance :: Automatic Disk Defrag Every 5 Minutes When Idle?

Feb 1, 2016

Every time i leave my computer idle for 5 minutes, disk defragmenting starts acting up. It never did this on Windows 7, and its very annoying. This causes my fan to speed up and it stays that way until i give it some input.

I always put my computer to sleep when I'm done using it, and would rather defragment manually. I want to turn this 5 minute defragging off, but how?

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after 5 minutes of no user input

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