It would also increase memory usage to over 90% cause the computer to page memory to the hard drive.

I figure having my computer backed up on an external hard drive and storing all of my files on multiple physical drives and cloud services is peace of mind enough

Optimizes hard drive

That hasn't changed, and with Norton Security Deluxe, it has had the same flaws where it doesn't work strongly, and takes too much room on my computer hard drive to where it doesn't run as smoothly as my computer once did

I also like that Norton can do quick scans of my hard drive, or intensive scans that scan every item

I have had norton for years and was pretty happy with it, until a couple of months ago when I got up in the morning to log on to my laptop and found out that the hard drive was gone!

For many years, we owned Norton's products especially because they included tune-up functions that had proved very helpful in "cleaning up" our hard drive and increasing the speed and efficiency of our computers.

Occasionally, Norton will bring my systems hard drive resources to 100% used, meaning my system locks up while I am trying to work.

I recently got one of those dreading scam warnings saying I had to contact the number on the screen or my hard drive would be wiped

I wanted to “wipe” a hard drive and could not find anything within this program to do

I use the Win10 backup to a dedicated external hard drive.

Update the software through their website and then input the serial key in case u r havin issues

It's because Norton has other stuff to sell, or, half the time, they just like e-mailing you garbage and reminders that you've already purchased their product