I only browsered through them to see if there were any common themes or other issues with apps or hardware. Have you read any dump files in the event viewer PRIOR to removing Norton? None, other than those that are part of Windows like Defender, etc. Do you have any other A/V or malware software installed? When you installed your Norton product did you allow it to install the patches that automatically come, rebooted each time whether asked to or not? Re-run updates until no more are available and reboot yet again? Still too expensive per MB for me to justify to my wallet. Is your main boot drive an SSD and if so have you disabled the 'trim' commands on that drive? I have not! I will reinstall and try that too. I am assuming you are on Windows 10 - Have you disabled 'fast startup', its NOT the same as SuperFetch. On current consumer release of Windows 10 Home, with all critical and optional updates. Are you installing an insider build of Windows 10? If so Norton DOES NOT guarantee their products will function properly with those builds due to the BETA nature of them. If at all possible, please help me with a solution that does not immediately discount the reality of the product being directly linked to the issue.Thank you so much in advance!! I love the product and want to use/trust it. The evidence, however, is overwhelmingly clear. I understand the instinctual response of not blaming the product.

uninstalled any program I can live without - no resolution.

removed everything possible from startup - no resolution.

replaced the hard drive and rebuilt again - no resolution.

reformatted disk and reinstalled all - no resolution.

enabled All Application Packages in Users & Groups in Skype.

full scanned for malware and run Power Eraser - no resolution.

adjusted the paging file size - no resolution.

disabled Windows Search Indexing - no resolution.

Unfortunately, I'm having a difficult time understanding these, because it is clearly linked to Norton. All my problems disappeared. I have read many posts about how this is not a Norton issue. When Norton 360 is running on my computer my disk usage is 100%, nearly 100% of the time.

Windows 10 disk %100