Windows 10: Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10

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.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Automatic Maintenance as needed in Windows 10.

*Warning 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:

*note 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.


2. To Enable Automatic Maintenance
*note 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

3. To Disable Automatic Maintenance
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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Windows 10 always auto steathly resumes my computor at niight, how to disable it?

This is horrible!

Facts:

• Automatic Maintenance is disabled.
• "powercfg /lastwake" returns "Wake History Count - 0"

I highly doubt Windows 10 ignores the Automatic Maintenance settings. Even if I disable it, Windows 10 still does Automatic Maintenance every day.

 

How to disable automatic maintenance permanently?

How to disable automatic maintenance permanently? The task Idle Maintenance and Regular Maintenance does not present in Task Scheduler anymore in Windows 10.

 

Hello PCFAN2016, *Smile

I'm glad it could help. Yes, it will stay disabled until you enable it again.

 

Hey, Brink,

Since I'm new to Win10, just a quick question or two:
1. Will this utility stop the automatic downloading of Windows and other updates?
2. Can the two downloaded .reg files be left on the Desktop and toggled between as desired?

Many thanks!

 

Hello Jim, *Smile

Q1) It will not stop automatic updates in Windows Update, but you can use the tutorial below for that.

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/enable-or-disable-windows-update-automatic-updates-in-windows-10.7745/

Q2) Sure, you could use the .reg files to toggle Automatic Maintenance on/off as you like.

 

I have MaintenanceDisabled 1 and it still saying yes in control panel!

 

Hello ameeralhindi, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Please post a screenshot showing what you're seeing to see what the issue could be.

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/how-to-upload-and-post-screenshots-and-files-at-ten-forums.8193/

Just to verify, when Automatic Maintenance is disabled, the daily scheduled maintenance will be disabled, and users will not be able to manually start maintenance.

 

Hey, ameeralhindi, are you referring to all those boxes with checkmarks under Control Panel/Security and Maintenance/Change Settings? I still have a bunch of those still checked too, but I used Brink's shortcut to (supposedly) turn the auto maintenance feature off, and I think it is off. At least my computer now sleeps through the night without waking up and shutting down completely before morning. I wonder if Brink can give us a way to check for sure.

 

Hey Jim, *Smile

I suppose you could manually see if its checked or unchecked to know if its on or off.

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

 

Hi, Brink,

I gave your suggestion a try, but see no toggling in the window via Control Panel at all. When I run your utility I get the message that the Registry has been changed, but this window doesn't do anything:





I do note, however, that the Last Run date is several days past and wonder if that's an indication that Auto Maintenance is indeed disabled, or if there's just nothing to do.

 

You'll need to click on the "Change maintenance settings" link to see.

 

Hi, Brink,

From what I gather now, when you do click on:Control Panel/Security and Maintenance/Maintenance, you'll either see 'No Action Needed' with a Last Run date, or 'Maintenance in Progress,' if either you luck into opening this panel when the computer is doing its normal thing, OR you have clicked: Start Maintenance and it's working. Your Disable does indeed prevent locally clicking: Start Maintenance (nothing happens), and I am quite sure now that it also prevents the scheduler from starting that operation. After you apply the Enable utility, then when you click: Start Maintenance it does indeed run... you can see lots of activity in Task Manager and the Control Panel window shows 'Maintenance in Progress.' I also went into the Registry and, sure enough, your Enable/Disable utilities for-sure change that value.

Quick question: Should one check to make sure that Auto Maintenance is not running before invoking the Disable command, or will a session in progress finish on its own and then be prevented from a subsequent scheduled start?

Since I installed and enacted both the Disable Automatic Maintenance and Disable Automatic Updates, my computer has been happily sleeping through the night, without waking and working on its own and then shutting down completely. Many thanks for the tip and utility!

 

No need to check before disabling. If it's currently running, it'll finish and won't run again.

If you like, you could keep Automatic Maintenance enabled, and uncheck the option to wake up the computer in its settings.

 

Thanks and i'm happy to be member of this big forum it's one of the best forums for me ( my best one )!
I tried to add registry manually and restarted pc, tried to download your reg and restart didn't work too, I don't have change settings like windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 i don't know why you have it on windows 10! i'm runing on last build, It's not a big deal but it's strange i mean why!? what should i do to make it off, also before it was off i don't know why it's on now even after disabling it from registry here is the screenshot.