System Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Up Computer in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable allowing Automatic Maintenance to wake up the computer to run scheduled maintenance tasks in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Windows automatically runs scheduled maintenance on a daily schedule when you're not using your computer.

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.

Reference:
learn.microsoft.com

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 change Automatic Maintenance settings.



Contents

  • Option One: Turn On or Off Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer in Control Panel
  • Option Two: Turn On or Off Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer using REG file
  • Option Three: Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer in Local Group Policy Editor
  • Option Four: Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer using REG file




Option One

Turn On or Off Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer in Control Panel


1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Security and Maintenance icon.

2 Click/tap on Maintenance to expand it open, and click/tap on the Change maintenance settings link under Automatic Maintenance. (see screenshot below)

Automatic_Maintenance-1.png

3 Check (on) or uncheck (default - off) Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

Automatic_Maintenance-2.png

4 You can now close the Security and Maintenance control panel if you like.




Option Two

Turn On or Off Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer using REG file


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.

2 Turn On Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.​

Turn_ON_Allow_Automatic_Maintenance_to_wake_up_computer_at_scheduled_time.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance]
"WakeUp"=dword:00000001

3 Turn Off Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

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.​

Turn_OFF_Allow_Automatic_Maintenance_to_wake_up_computer_at_scheduled_time.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance]
"WakeUp"=dword:00000000

4 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.




Option Three

Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer in Local Group Policy Editor


The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10/11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Four to configure the same policy.


1 Open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).

2 Navigate to the registry key location below in the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor. (see screenshot below)

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Maintenance Scheduler​

Automatic_Maintenance_wakeup_gpedit-1.png

3 In the right pane of Maintenance Scheduler, double click/tap on the Automatic Maintenance WakeUp Policy policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4 Do step 5 (enable), step 6 (disable), or step 7 (default) below for what you want.

5 Always Enable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

This will override and prevent using Option One and Option Two.


A) Select (dot) Enabled. (see screenshot below)​

B) Click/tap on OK, and go to step 8.​

Automatic_Maintenance_wakeup_gpedit-3.png

6 Always Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

This will override and prevent using Option One and Option Two.


A) Select (dot) Disabled. (see screenshot below)​

B) Click/tap on OK, and go to step 8.​

Automatic_Maintenance_wakeup_gpedit-4.png

7 Default User Choice Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

This is the default setting to allow using Option One and Option Two.


A) Select (dot) Not Configured. (see screenshot below)​

B) Click/tap on OK, and go to step 8.​

Automatic_Maintenance_wakeup_gpedit-2.png

8 You can now close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.




Option Four

Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer using REG file


1 Do step 2 (enable), step 3 (disable), or step 4 (default) below for what you want.


 2. Always Enable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

This will override and prevent using Option One and Option Two.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.​

Enable_Automatic_Maintenance_Wakeup_Policy.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Task Scheduler\Maintenance]
"WakeUp"=dword:00000001


 3. Always Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

This will override and prevent using Option One and Option Two.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.​

Disable_Automatic_Maintenance_Wakeup_Policy.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Task Scheduler\Maintenance]
"WakeUp"=dword:00000000


 4. Default User Choice Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

This is the default setting to allow using Option One and Option Two.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.​

Default_Not_Configured_Automatic_Maintenance_Wakeup_Policy.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Task Scheduler\Maintenance]
"WakeUp"=-

5 Save the REG file to your desktop.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded REG file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 You can now delete the downloaded REG file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


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z3r010 said:
The site you linked isn't a real site, it just copies random posts from all the tech sites (including ours) and mashes the replies together to create content to show ads on.
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Oh, well, my sincere apologies ! :-) How can I know? This being said, the maintenance proble is still there!
 

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orbitalfenestra said:
Oh, well, my sincere apologies ! :-) How can I know? This being said, the maintenance proble is still there!
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You wouldn't know other than the threads not making much sense, I know because they copy loads of our content.
 

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z3r010 said:
You wouldn't know other than the threads not making much sense, I know because they copy loads of our content.
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I guess I will be more careful!

Is it the original one?

Maintenance Activator Task - Windows 10 Help Forums

I posted here about year ago concerning a scheduled task called Maintenance Activator. I still cannot find this task listed in the Task Scheduler or b
www.tenforums.com www.tenforums.com

I guess that question remained unanswered to this day!
 

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orbitalfenestra said:
Is there any way to locate "Maintenance Activator" task?
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You could check below to see if the task is listed with its location.

www.elevenforum.com

Find All Automatic Maintenance Tasks in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to create and see a list of all Automatic Maintenance tasks in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows automatically runs scheduled maintenance on a daily schedule when you're not using your computer. This includes tasks such as updates, security scanning, and system...
www.elevenforum.com www.elevenforum.com
 

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orbitalfenestra said:
Sorted by name and no "Maintenance Activator" task, to the best of my knowledge.
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The best I can assume after a lot of reading from the Internet, "Maintenance Activator" is basically "Automatic Maintenance".
 

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Brink said:
The best I can assume after a lot of reading from the Internet, "Maintenance Activator" is basically "Automatic Maintenance".
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Where is automatic maintenance, then? As you noticed earlier, the classic tasks in the "TaskScheduler" folder are gone. I have a "Maintenance Activator" wake timer but the option is unchecked in Maintenance. As long as this mysterious wake timer will remain, automatic maintenance will work while S3 or S4 sleep. Once it disappers, then it's game over, no matter if you enable it in control panel or not. (To the best of my knowledge).
 

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orbitalfenestra said:
Where is automatic maintenance, then? As you noticed earlier, the classic tasks in the "TaskScheduler" folder are gone. I have a "Maintenance Activator" wake timer but the option is unchecked in Maintenance. As long as this mysterious wake timer will remain, automatic maintenance will work while S3 or S4 sleep. Once it disappers, then it's game over, no matter if you enable it in control panel or not. (To the best of my knowledge).
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That's the rub. There's no official reference data I can find for "Maintenance Activator". :(

You could test this below to completely disable Automatic Maintenance if the group policy doesn't help.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance

MaintenanceDisabled DWORD value (create if not there) set to 1.

Then restart computer to apply.
 

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Brink said:
That's the rub. There's no official reference data I can find for "Maintenance Activator". :(

You could test this below to completely disable Automatic Maintenance if the group policy doesn't help.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance

MaintenanceDisabled DWORD value (create if not there) set to 1.

Then restart computer to apply.
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I guess I didn't have to wait that long for the "maintenance activator" wake timer to vanish. Automatic maintenance ran once and there is no wake timer anymore. (in French: "there is no ative wake timer in the system")

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I'd like to precise that I want the automatic maintenance to do its job on a non modern standby computer. Tried "MaintenanceDisabled" trick and it has no effects yesterday. I will try again just to be sure. As I suspect, it is not working anymore. No matter what I do, when I check with powercfg -waketimers, there is none. Tested it yesterday and my S3 PC stayed asleep.

So, to summerize, if someone is only using S0 modern standby, he can ignore all this because modern stanby is not a true sleep and windows doesn't require any wake timer to make it start. But if you are using S4 or S3 then automatic maintenance won't work anymore.
 

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@orbitalfenestra,

You might also create your own task to wake the computer to test with.
 

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Brink said:
@orbitalfenestra,

You might also create your own task to wake the computer to test with.
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Already tried!

I gave it "MSchedExe.exe Start" . The PC wakes but go back to sleep after 2 minutes (unattened sleep). That exe does not prevent PC to go back to sleep. Tried to use Powershell and start-process -wait but for some reason it does not accept "start" as arguments. Tried to extend unattened sleep to 120 minutes. Woke up this morning and when I checked in maintenance menu. The maintenance was still going (therefore stuck or not finished).

So to this point I think creating my own task I am not sure is it worked. But I read somewhere that the maximum time the task can roll is 60 minutes... so unattended sleep at 120 minutes, I should have found the maintenance completed this morning and not still running.

Maybe I could tweak some parameters in the task... Many questions and few answers... I though to find the 4 vanished tasks and put them back in the "TaskScheduler" folder... But I don't have them...
 

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orbitalfenestra said:
Already tried!

I gave it "MSchedExe.exe Start" . The PC wakes but go back to sleep after 2 minutes (unattened sleep). That exe does not prevent PC to go back to sleep. Tried to use Powershell and start-process -wait but for some reason it does not accept "start" as arguments. Tried to extend unattened sleep to 120 minutes. Woke up this morning and when I checked in maintenance menu. The maintenance was still going (therefore stuck or not finished).

So to this point I think creating my own task I am not sure is it worked. But I read somewhere that the maximum time the task can roll is 60 minutes... so unattended sleep at 120 minutes, I should have found the maintenance completed this morning and not still running.

Maybe I could tweak some parameters in the task... Many questions and few answers... I though to find the 4 vanished tasks and put them back in the "TaskScheduler" folder... But I don't have them...
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The System unattended sleep timeout is indeed 2 minutes by default unless changed.

www.tenforums.com

Change System Unattended Sleep Timeout in Windows 10

How to Change System Unattended Sleep Timeout in Windows 10
www.tenforums.com www.tenforums.com

I'm not sure about the vanished tasks in the "TaskScheduler" folder since I don't have any there either.
 

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    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
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    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
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    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
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    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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    16 GB LPDDR5x-7467 MHz
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    15" HDR
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    2496 x 1664
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    1 TB SSD
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    Windows Defender
Brink said:
The System unattended sleep timeout is indeed 2 minutes by default unless changed.

www.tenforums.com

Change System Unattended Sleep Timeout in Windows 10

How to Change System Unattended Sleep Timeout in Windows 10
www.tenforums.com www.tenforums.com

I'm not sure about the vanished tasks in the "TaskScheduler" folder since I don't have any there either.
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Well. I guess I will give up for now. That's unfortunate tho because it was very useful. It's frustrating tho! ;P I just want to have the control about when it happens. So I may force it daily at 4PM or something like that so no surprises when I start working at 8AM.
 
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I am running a Dell XPS 8960 with Windows 11 Pro. The PC will not wake up for scheduled maintenance and for the daily Acronis backup I have scheduled for the middle of the night. Under Control Panel / Security and Maintenance / Maintenance / Change maintenance settings / Automatic Maintenance, the “Run maintenance tasks daily at” is set to midnight and “Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time” is grayed out and unchecked.

I have enabled the wake-up option in Acronis and have ensured Windows 11 wake-up timers are enabled under the power settings. I have also tried all the suggested options in this excellent article by Brink. Nothing I do removes the graying out nor checks the box to allow scheduled maintenance to wake my computer. I’m out of ideas. Thanks for any help you might suggest.
 

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For what it is worth, my wife's Dell XPS 9720 never woke up either. I use Macrium rather than Acronis.

To resolve I set to never sleep. In modern standby the screen goes dark and it locks after 30 minutes. Now all the tasks run as they should. I'm not sure if you saw my earlier comments in this thread, on her Dell the network in standby was disabled. Run powercfg -a to see your "Sleep" states.
 

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    Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (System Copy Drive),
    Samsung 860 EVO 1TB (Primary Data Drive),
    WD Black 500GB (Data Copy Drive)
    ICY Dock 5.25 2.5/3.5 Bays MB971SP-B
    PSU
    Corsair RM 650i +Gold
    Case
    Phanteks Enthroo Primo
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H150i, 360mm Rad & Five Corsair 140mm Pro ML Case Fans
    Keyboard
    das Keyboard MX Brown Mechanical Switches Model DASKMKPROSIL-3G7-r1.0
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3 Wireless & Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    500Mb +
    Browser
    Chrome (Pri), Firefox (Sec)
    Antivirus
    Malwarebytes Premium, SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Licensed)
    Other Info
    Microsoft LifeCam HD,
    APC Back-UPS Pro 1500,
    Macrium (Licensed),
    Microsoft 365,
    Wise Disk Cleaner,
    Crystal Disk Info,
    Screenpresso (Licensed),
    AnyDesk (Licensed),
Ken,
Thanks for the response. After another month of experimenting, I have given up and am now using your approach of setting the PC to never sleep. I turn off the display after 15 minutes, which triggers Modern Standby at that point. I just can't find a way for my Windows 11 machine to wake up from sleep to perform a task such as backup. It worked well in Windows 10!
Jim
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro (x64) (23H2, build 22631.4169)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8960
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-14700, 2100 MHz, 20 core, 28 logical proc
    Motherboard
    Dell 09M47G
    Memory
    32-GB DDR5 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Raptor Lake-S - Integrated Graphics
Some day they will fix this.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro x64 Version V23H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    i7-8700K
    Motherboard
    Asus Maximus X Code - Z370
    Memory
    G.Skill Trident Z 3200MHz F4-3200C16D-16GTZ (2) 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel UHD Graphics 630
    Sound Card
    Integrated ROG SupremeFX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus VP279 27", Samsung BX2431 24"
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung M.2 NVMe 960 EVO 500GB Boot,
    Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (System Copy Drive),
    Samsung 860 EVO 1TB (Primary Data Drive),
    WD Black 500GB (Data Copy Drive)
    ICY Dock 5.25 2.5/3.5 Bays MB971SP-B
    PSU
    Corsair RM 650i +Gold
    Case
    Phanteks Enthroo Primo
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H150i, 360mm Rad & Five Corsair 140mm Pro ML Case Fans
    Keyboard
    das Keyboard MX Brown Mechanical Switches Model DASKMKPROSIL-3G7-r1.0
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3 Wireless & Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    500Mb +
    Browser
    Chrome (Pri), Firefox (Sec)
    Antivirus
    Malwarebytes Premium, SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Licensed)
    Other Info
    Microsoft LifeCam HD,
    APC Back-UPS Pro 1500,
    Macrium (Licensed),
    Microsoft 365,
    Wise Disk Cleaner,
    Crystal Disk Info,
    Screenpresso (Licensed),
    AnyDesk (Licensed),
Brink said:
Always Disable Automatic Maintenance to Wake Computer

A) Select (dot) Disabled. (see screenshot below)
Click to expand...
Hello Brink,

Are you sure this is accurate? The description of the option says, "If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the wake setting as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel will apply."
That tells me it may be impossible to disable wake for maintenance through (non-cusomt) group policies.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11
alibi said:
Hello Brink,

Are you sure this is accurate? The description of the option says, "If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the wake setting as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel will apply."
That tells me it may be impossible to disable wake for maintenance through (non-cusomt) group policies.
Click to expand...

Hello. :alien:

Yeah, it doesn't help when the GPO description is not very accurate or clear.

When the Automatic Maintenance WakeUp Policy policy is configured to "Disabled", it will disable and gray out the Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time setting like below.

GPO.webp
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self build
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING (11GB GDDR5X)
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G75 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3 wall mounted
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gbps Download and 35 Mbps Upload
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Microsoft Defender and Malwarebytes Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC
    CPU
    Snapdragon X Elite (12 core) 3.42 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB LPDDR5x-7467 MHz
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15" HDR
    Screen Resolution
    2496 x 1664
    Hard Drives
    1 TB SSD
    Internet Speed
    Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4
    Browser
    Chrome and Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
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