This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Windows automatically runs scheduled maintenance on a daily schedule when you're not using your computer by default.
This includes tasks such as updates, security scanning, and system diagnostics. This maintenance will run daily if you aren't using your computer at 2 AM by default. If your computer is in use at the scheduled time or maintenance is behind schedule, Automatic Maintenance will run the next time the computer is not being used.
You can change the default 2 AM time to run daily maintenance tasks to when you're not using your computer while running or sleeping.
You can allow scheduled maintenance to wake up your computer at the scheduled time if wanted. This will not work when you shut down (turn off) the computer.
While it is recommended to leave Automatic Maintenance enabled, you can disable it as needed.
When Automatic Maintenance is disabled, the daily scheduled maintenance will be disabled, and users will not be able to manually start Automatic Maintenance.
Reference:
Automatic maintenance (Task Scheduler) - Win32 apps
Maintenance activity refers to an application or process that helps maintain the health and performance of a Windows PC.
learn.microsoft.com
You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable Automatic Maintenance.
EXAMPLE: Automatic Maintenance
Here's How:
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you want.
2 Enable Automatic Maintenance
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Enable_Automatic_Maintenance.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance]
"MaintenanceDisabled"=-3 Disable Automatic Maintenance
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Disable_Automatic_Maintenance.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance]
"MaintenanceDisabled"=dword:000000014 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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