Windows 10: Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance in Windows

How to: Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance in Windows

How to Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance in Windows


Information By default, Windows will automatically run the System Maintenance troubleshooter on a scheduled basis in the background to check for routine maintenance issues, proactively fix detected problems if able, and notifes you if user input is required.

Potential issues checked by System Maintenance:

• Broken shortcuts - Broken shortcuts are invalid references to programs and other resources. For example, a desktop shortcut for a USB device may be regarded as broken if the USB device is not connected when the System Maintenance troubleshooter performs its maintenance. When there are more than 4 broken shortcuts on the desktop, then all broken shortcuts on the desktop are removed.
• Troubleshooting history is taking up disk space - Frees up disk space by removing troubleshooting history logs older than 1 month.
• System time is incorrectly set - Sets the correct system time and synchronize system clock with the time server. When the system time is set incorrectly, features that rely on time measurement such as Product Activation, malware scanners, and browser certificates might not work correctly.
• Unused desktop icons - Icons and shortcuts on the desktop that have been unused in 3 months are removed.
• Disk volume errors - Frees up disk space by repairing hard disk volume errors such as bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files and directory errors. These problems can cause the file system to report incorrect volume details and occupy excessive disk space.
• Error reports are taking up disk space - Frees up disk space by removing error reports and logs older than 1 month.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable automatic scheduled system maintenance in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to turn on/off or enable/disable scheduled system maintenance.


Note You will always be able to manually run the System Maintenance troubleshooter.

CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On or Off Scheduled System Maintenance in Troubleshooting Settings
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off Scheduled System Maintenance using a REG file
• Option Three: To Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Four: To Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off Scheduled System Maintenance in Troubleshooting Settings
1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Troubleshooting icon.

2. Click/tap on the Change settings link on the left side in Troubleshooting. (see screenshot below)



3. Select (dot) On (default) or Off for what you want under Computer Maintenance, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)



4. You can now close the "Change settings" window if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off Scheduled System Maintenance using a REG file


Note This option does the same thing as Option One above.

The .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ScheduledDiagnostics

EnabledExecution DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On

1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Scheduled System 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.

Turn_On_scheduled_system_maintenance.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Scheduled System Maintenance
A) Click/tap on the download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_scheduled_system_maintenance.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. If prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.





OPTION THREE [/i] To Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance in Local Group Policy Editor


Note Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Four below.

1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2. In the left pane of local group policy editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Troubleshooting and Diagnostics\Scheduled Maintenance




3. In the right pane of Scheduled Maintenance in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Configure Scheduled Maintenance Behavior policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (default), step 6 (enable - troubleshoot only), step 7 (enable - regular), or step 8 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Use Default Scheduled System Maintenance Settings
A) Select (dot) Not Configured, click/tap on OK, and go to step 9 below. (see screenshot below step 8)

6. To Enable Scheduled System Maintenance to Troubleshoot Only
A) Select (dot) Enabled, select Troubleshooting Only in the Execution Level drop down, click/tap on OK, and go to step 9 below. (see screenshot below step 8)

7. To Enable Scheduled System Maintenance to Troubleshoot and Fix
A) Select (dot) Enabled, select Regular in the Execution Level drop down, click/tap on OK, and go to step 9 below. (see screenshot below step 8)

8. To Disable Scheduled System Maintenance


Note This will disable the ability to turn on scheduled system maintenance in Option One and Option Two.

A) Select (dot) Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 9 below. (see screenshot below)




9. You can now close the local group policy editor if you like.





OPTION FOUR [/i] To Enable or Disable Scheduled System Maintenance using a REG file


Note This option does the same thing as Option Three above.

The .reg files below will modify the DWORD values in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\ScheduledDiagnostics

EnabledExecution DWORD

(delete) = Not configured (default)
0 = Disable
1 = Enable

EnabledExecutionLevel DWORD

(delete) = Not configured (default)
1 = Troubleshoot only
2 = Regular (Troubleshoot and fix)

2. Do step 2 (default), step 4 (enable - troubleshoot only), step 4 (enable - regular), or step 5 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Use Default Scheduled System Maintenance Settings
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 6 below.

Default_scheduled_system_maintenance.reg

Download

3. To Enable Scheduled System Maintenance to Troubleshoot Only
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 6 below.

Enable_scheduled_troubleshoot_only_system_maintenance.reg

Download

4. To Enable Scheduled System Maintenance to Troubleshoot and Fix
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 6 below.

Enable_scheduled_regular_system_maintenance.reg

Download

5. To Disable Scheduled System Maintenance


Note This will disable the ability to turn on scheduled system maintenance in Option One and Option Two.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 6 below.

Disable_scheduled_system_maintenance.reg

Download
6. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

7. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

8. If prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

9. If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Run System Maintenance Troubleshooter in Windows
• How to Enable or Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10
• How to View All Automatic Maintenance Tasks in Windows 10

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How to disable automatic maintenance permanently?

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in Windows 10!

In Windows 8.1, you could open the task scheduler and browse to the location: Task Scheduler > Microsoft > Windows > Task Scheduler. You could then eventually, disable
Idle Maintenance & Regular Maintenance. But in Windows 10, these entries are not listed.

In this case, I would suggest you to send your feedback using the Feedback App in Windows 10. To open the feedback app:

• Open Start menu.
• Type Feedback and hit Enter
• Follow the prompts

Hope the information helps.

 

Task Scheduler: UpdateOrchestrator Schedule Retry Scan Cannot be disabled

Hi ErolD.IT,

Your computer may have been set to run tasks such as software updates, security scan, and system diagnostics when not in use. Let's look into your computer's
System and Maintenance page and see if the mentioned option is enabled. Follow these steps:

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Navigate to System and Security > Security and Maintenance.
3. Expand the Maintenance category.
4. Under Automatic Maintenance, click Change maintenance settings.
5. Uncheck the Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time option.
6. Click OK.

You may also disable the wake timers under Power options. Here's how:

1. Open Control Panel, then click Power Options.
2. At the right pane of your preferred plan, click Change plan settings.
3. Click Change advanced power settings.
4. Locate and expand the Sleep option on the list.
5. Expand Allow wake timers, then set the Setting to
   Disable.
6. Click Apply, then OK.

Please let me know how it goes so I can further assist you if needed.

Regards.

 

Maintenance Scheduler

Can anyone tell me where I can find Maintenance Scheduler as I want to disable it and it is not in Task Scheduler running windows 8.1 Thank you

 

Please teach me disabling auto-maintenance Windows 10

Hi,

The Automatic Maintenance normally runs at a time when the computer is idle. When it finds that the computer is in use at a time scheduled for the automatic maintenance, then it does not start automatically and instead it waits
for the next time when the computer is idle.

Follow the steps to disable Automatic Maintenance:

a. on the search bar type Task Schedule.

b. Open Task Scheduler.

c. Browse to Task Scheduler, Microsoft,
Windows, Task Scheduler.

d. Right-click Idle Maintenance & Regular Maintenance and selectDisable and exit the task scheduler window and check if its is disabled or not.

If the computer is running slow, I would suggest you to follow the steps given in the Microsoft KB article:

Ways to improve your PC's performance

Note: Disk cleanup cleans up files associated with your user account. You can also use Disk Cleanup to clean up all the files on your computer.

Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with updated status of the issue to assist you further.

 

Windows Maintenance never stops

I have "Idle Maintenance" and "Regular Maintenance" disabled in the Task Scheduler.
Now it does not run anymore when idle.

I will defrag my hdd and optimize my ssd manually.
I have scheduled windows defender anti virus scanning automatically once a week.
I do windows updates manually.

I don't think that windows automatic maintenance when idle important is, or is it?