How to Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10
Automatic Maintenance is when Windows automatically runs maintenance on a daily schedule when you're not using your computer.
This includes tasks such as software updates, Windows Updates, security scanning, and system diagnostics. This maintenance will run daily if you aren't using your computer at the time you've chosen. 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.
The goal of Automatic Maintenance is to combine all background maintenance activity in Windows and help third-party developers add their maintenance activity to Windows without negatively impacting performance and energy efficiency. Additionally, Automatic Maintenance enables users as well as enterprises to be in control of maintenance activity scheduling and configuration.
It is recommended to leave Automatic Maintenance enabled, but sometimes you may wish or need to disable it.
See also: Automatic Maintenance | Microsoft Docs
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Automatic Maintenance as needed in Windows 10.
You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to enable or disable Automatic Maintenance.
When Automatic Maintenance is disabled, the daily scheduled maintenance will be disabled, and users will not be able to manually start maintenance.
Here's How:
The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD in the registry key below.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance
MaintenanceDisabled DWORD
0 or delete = enable
1 = disable
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Enable_Automatic_Maintenance.reg
Download
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Disable_Automatic_Maintenance.reg
Download
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 If you like, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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