How to disable "Automatic maintenance"?

Pipppero2007 · 15 Sep 2016

The Windows 8.1 method is not working...

I cannot find "Idle Maintenance" under TaskScheduler anymore!!!

Bree · 15 Sep 2016

No, I don't think you can disable automatic maintenance in Windows 10 any more .

However, as you are asking about SSDs here https://www.tenforums.com/performance...tml#post812621 I'm guessing it's the automatic optimisation that you want to turn off. That you can do.

Start the 'Defragment and Optimize Drives' app and click the 'Change settings' button.

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TairikuOkami · 16 Sep 2016

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

Run CMD as admin and copy/paste:

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance" /v "MaintenanceDisabled" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

Pipppero2007 · 16 Sep 2016

TairikuOkami said:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

Run CMD as admin and copy/paste:

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance" /v "MaintenanceDisabled" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

So the solution in the tuturial section is still valid even for UA.

Please, I don't bore you too much, what I lose by disabling it? I am really afraid that next time I will leave the PC alone it will block but also I want to be aware about what kind of care I am losing.

Thank you

TairikuOkami · 16 Sep 2016

Pipppero2007 said:

Please, I don't bore you too much, what I lose by disabling it? I am really afraid that next time I will leave the PC alone it will block but also I want to be aware about what kind of care I am losing.

I can not think of anything really. All maintenance tasks like defrag, disk cleanup or component cleanup have their own tasks. I think the only difference is, that the system maintenance can not be stopped, but those separate tasks run only, when the computer is idle.

Pipppero2007 · 16 Sep 2016

I dont want tools to run when idle.
I dont know what of that make my pc stuck with tiworker.exe

TairikuOkami · 16 Sep 2016

Pipppero2007 said:

I dont want tools to run when idle.

Then you would have to disable all of them, there about 50 tasks running by default.

Pipppero2007 said:

I dont know what of that make my pc stuck with tiworker.exe

That process is running, when Windows is working with system files, usually Windows Update, component cleanup, etc.

rseiler · 17 Sep 2016

The one that activates (actually, a group) after exactly 4 minutes of idle time is the one that most drives me crazy, since absolutely nothing could be that important.

I tried hunting it down once using TaskSchedulerView, which is the only sanity-preserving way of trying to figure out Microsoft's myriad tasks, and I gave up when I had gotten up to disabling around 10 that were activating upon idle. There was always one more.