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Task scheduler
Does anyone know how often the app update task schedule runs? And how to change it? I have auto app updates switched off but I know the update checker still runs. As I will sometimes open store and see app updates waiting to be manually downloaded.
I'm not saying the above is the reason but our laptop is having what appeasr to be an issue every 24 hours approx. using MS account related data. Everything will be fine for all our user accounts but then after about a day we will switch on and be presented with problems signing into Groove, Films and TV, Cortana not showing interests, settings for family showing red and unavailable, long delays loading data when going into Store, delays waiting for Weather app to fully load/retrieve, Photos app not logging in, even Outlook.com slow to reach within IE and Edge. I then need to wait 10 - 30 minutes before MS account related activity will spring into life. Then suddenly everything will be fine (even across reboots) for about another day until the cycle starts over. It's not as if windows is slow to login when this is happening, it loads in nice and fast. Apps even load just fine during this delay period, as for example Photos app opens up immediately displaying our pics but we just don't show as logged in at the bottom left. Same with Films and TV app. But Apps that rely on MS data such as Weather and Store often open up with white screen and spinning blue dots waiting to receive data. It's a really frustrating issue. It affects every user account on the laptop too (accounts have been deleted and recreated but the problem persists). The User accounts are not on the same cycle when displaying this problem. Kind of hard to explain but say my account is now fine using MS account related data, my wife will login more than a day since her last login and she will get all the problems and need to wait 10 - 30 mins. If she logs out back and I log in then my account will be absolutely fine. Back to hers but the problem persists and she must wait it out. So the user accounts are on different schedules regarding this problem. If that makes sense.
I must stress that during the problematic times all non MS account related activity will be absolutely fine. We can browse happily, use the network, software like Steam and iTunes are happily using the internet and it's all real fast as we have a fast ISP service. It's just anything reliant/tied to MS account login that is affected.
There has to be some task scheduled that is causing this. At first I was blaming MS servers. But we don't have the same problem on our desktop so I am thinking some kind of task is clogging things right up.