Disable automatic maintenance?

Since the task Idle Maintenance and Regular Maintenance does not present in Task Scheduler anymore in Windows 10, does anyone know how to disable automatic maintenance?

Harpert said:

If by automatic Maintenance you are referring to automatic Updates, indeed, there are no real settings to change.
There are 3 options:

- Windows does everything for you and when your PC is untouched for some time, it might restart all by itself
- Windows downloads all, but let's you decide when you want to restart
- With Services.msc you can switch off automatic updates entirely (but als can't access the Windows Store)

For the second option, go to SETTINGS
choose UPDATE & SECURITY
choose Updates and Advanced


This is the easiest solution :)

Good luck

Thanks for the reply but I want help about automatic maintenance and not automatic updates.

In windows 8, it can be disabled: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html

Is there a way to do it in Windows 10?

Brink said:

It's not yet known how to disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10, but you can change the settings for it for now if you like.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Thanks, I hope there's a way to disable in the future.

I suspect this is part of the new expectation with Windows 10. Remember that when Microsoft announced that Win10 would be a free upgrade they stated that users who took part in the free offer would be required to allow Microsoft to do automatic maintenance on their computers. You can change the time of day for automatic maintenance, and you can defer automatic Windows updates, but you cannot turn them off.

I don't see that ever changing. This was the contract Microsoft made with users for free upgrades in order to make sure more computers were kept up to date with security and performance fixes.

Mostly I think this was in response to Microsoft always having a bad reputation for security and their belief that mostly has been caused by people who bypass security fixes in Windows, or never upgrade at all. e.g. The millions of people who are still on XP...

hiphopper said:

I suspect this is part of the new expectation with Windows 10. Remember that when Microsoft announced that Win10 would be a free upgrade they stated that users who took part in the free offer would be required to allow Microsoft to do automatic maintenance on their computers. You can change the time of day for automatic maintenance, and you can defer automatic Windows updates, but you cannot turn them off.

I don't see that ever changing. This was the contract Microsoft made with users for free upgrades in order to make sure more computers were kept up to date with security and performance fixes.

Mostly I think this was in response to Microsoft always having a bad reputation for security and their belief that mostly has been caused by people who bypass security fixes in Windows, or never upgrade at all. e.g. The millions of people who are still on XP...

This feature is great for computer amateurs, but definitely not for power users!
If I adjust the maintenance time to midnight when the computer is switch off, and uncheck allow wake computer up for maintenance, can this be a workaround to postpone the task?

It will perform the maintenance the next time the computer is turned on. At least that's what it did on my PC



I also consider myself a semi-power user, (have built and overclocked computers for the last 15 years), but this "maintenance" seems kind of unusual and powerful. Whether the capabilities are built into Windows 10 or its maintenance program, my PC has been steadily getting faster and more stable. I have gone from fairly large number of warnings and errors under Administrative Events in event viewer to next to none with no actions on my part. My boot times are now, very fast with no 100 warnings on boot and below five seconds warnings on Shutdown Performance Monitoring in event viewer. My suggestion is to let this maintenance do its thing till Windows 10 reaches a point of reasonable maturity and relative standardization.

It's surprising that this hasn't been found yet. Whether it's called idle, automatic (though I'm not speaking of when it happens at a scheduled time), or something else entirely, it can be seen, at least here, when you don't touch the PC for about 4 minutes or longer (and it's not set to go to sleep before that time, of course).

If you have Task Manager on the tray, you'll see it turn almost completely green, indicating CPU activity, and there's disk activity as well. It's really hard to comprehend that this is a good design, since it does it compulsively.

rseiler said:

It's surprising that this hasn't been found yet. Whether it's called idle, automatic (though I'm not speaking of when it happens at a scheduled time), or something else entirely, it can be seen, at least here, when you don't touch the PC for about 4 minutes or longer (and it's not set to go to sleep before that time, of course).

If you have Task Manager on the tray, you'll see it turn almost completely green, indicating CPU activity, and there's disk activity as well. It's really hard to comprehend that this is a good design, since it does it compulsively.

Yes I wonder who in Microsoft think this is a good idea, and the scheduled time is not working property, some users report the maintenance trigger itself and don't follow the user set time. This is not good for Windows 10 since casual users will just think Windows 10 is slow and complain then tell their friends don't upgrade. We power users have to dig the task scheduler to disable the corresponding tasks manually one by one, I suggest Microsoft will truly listen opinions.