Computer and Software Support


How to determine if Trim is enabled 

 

With SSD drives, they do not use defrag. Defrag will harm the SSD drive. SSD drives use Trim. You need to make sure Trim is enabled or the SSD drive will become slow.

In order to use Trim, you must have Windows 7 or newer operating system. To find out if Trim is enabled do the following

  1. Open CMD with administrator privileges

  2. Type Fsutil behavior query DisabledeleteNotify

   
  1. Press Enter

    1. If

      1. DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (The 0 is a zero)

   
  1. Trim is enabled

 

  1. DisableDeleteNotify = 1

   
  1. Trim is disabled

 

  1. To enable Trim type fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 (you might have to reboot afterwards) (the 0 after DisableDeleteNotify is a zero)

   
  1. Press Enter