From the reports of BGR, several users are facing defragmentation issues with their SSDs, where theyโ€™re fragmented too much to wear out soon! This was reportedly happening for users whoโ€™ve updated their system to Windows 10 May 2020 update, which brings up the version to 2004 and has several bugs when released. Though Microsoft made a fix, itโ€™s still limited to Windows Insider users only.

Bug in Windows 10 Ruining SSDs

Since January, most of the monthly updates rolled out by Microsoft has more bugs than fixes. One such update thatโ€™s highly criticized is the May 2020 update, which levels up the Windows 10 version to 2004 build, and promised many new features and improvements in designs. Yet, it has several bugs similar to previous updates.

Windows 10 2004 Bug Causes SSDs Fragment: Here's the FixOne critical bug thatโ€™s reported widely by the community is about the Disk Optimiser, which manages the disk defragmentation and checks the fragmented records. This has been affected by a bug in Windows 10 2004, where itโ€™s now performing defragmentation of the disk, especially SSDs every time when theyโ€™re connected and started.

The frequency has gone so up that, itโ€™s now fragmenting 30 times more than regular, thus ruining its lifespan in the long run. Microsoft has acknowledged this issue and readied a patch, but itโ€™s only available to Windows Insider users as of now. Yet, thereโ€™s a manual workaround. Hereโ€™s how;

  1. Open Command Prompt with โ€œRun as Administratorโ€ option. For this, press Windows key + Q and type โ€œcmdโ€ in the box.
  2. Paste These Below Commands and Hit Enter

REG ADD โ€œHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Dfrg \ BootOptimizeFunctionโ€ / V Enable / T REG_SZ / DN / F

REG ADD โ€œHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Dfrg \ BootOptimizeFunctionโ€ / V OptimizeComplete / T REG_SZ / D No / F

REG ADD โ€œHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ OptimalLayoutโ€ / V EnableAutoLayout / T REG_DWORD / D 0 / F

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