I agree with zep - Auslogic defrag (as with many other "utilities") is unnecessary. Pretend you don't have it. Don't use it, let Windows do its thing.

Other than for people who download and then delete large volumes of data, drives rarely get heavily fragmented and the defrag should rarely take more than a few minutes. If you don't want to wait while it works, trigger it when you've ended your PC session and are moving on to do something else. Or, when you go to bed.

zep - my computer is almost always turned off at 3 am on Wednesday. Is the auto defrag still able to do its thing?I used to have CCleaner ... until one day my fingers hit the wrong keys.

SnidelyW. : I used to be one of those people who downloaded and deleted lots and lots ... but not so much any more. And it may very well have been during that time that I got "suckered into" downloading Auslogic.

I have Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and SUPER Anti-Spyware and ATF-Cleaner to help Windows "do its thing". Which I use much more frequently than the Auslogic defrag.

Thanks again to you both.

janey, I don't think you need those three either. Install a good security suite with real-time monitoring, be careful about what sites you go to, limit downloads to the bare minimum and nothing other than from mainstream sites, and you'll find you don't need anything more. Good luck.

It's very common for people to think that they have to have special programs to take care of computer maintenance. In my experience these are usually unnecessary and sometimes cause more problems then they solve, to say nothing of unnecessary expense if you are buying paid versions.

Microsoft Windows 10 user forums - quite often people complain win10 is so slow.... Usually if you look in task manager you might see something using extra cpu. That's item usually needs uninstalled/reinstalled or upgraded or downgraded.

Usually slowness is just one item stuck constantly sucking too much cpu and it will slow down everything.

You already have disk clean up & defrag in W10, try running it.

Janey, my experience is that if your comp is "off" during the scheduled defrag time, it will do it next time it comes on. I schedule mine mid-afternoon when I'm off the comp but it's not "asleep" yet.

You can just look at the last time it was done to confirm that it's working.

Use torrents for find free software

If you have Norton anti-virus software, many versions of it include a disk defragger.