{"id":8827,"date":"2017-02-06T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:11:15","slug":"disable-automatic-maintenance-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/disable-automatic-maintenance-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic Maintenance is a built-in feature in Windows 10\/8 that is turned on by default. When your computer is idle, the system will automatically run its maintenance tasks (windows updates, security scanning, disk checking, etc) at the background.<\/p>\n<p>Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/9-ways-to-open-control-panel-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">open the Control Panel<\/a> in Large icons view, click <strong>Security and Maintenance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/security-and-maintenance.png\" alt=\"security-and-maintenance\" width=\"590\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8833\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can then see if automatic maintenance is in progress. From there you can see a link for stopping the automatic maintenance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/windows-automatic-maintenance.png\" alt=\"windows-automatic-maintenance\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8828\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to prevent Windows 10 from automatically running the maintenance next time, you can disable it using the following registry hack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the Windows Key + R keys simultaneously, then type <strong>regedit<\/strong> in Run dialog box and press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>When the Registry Editor window appears, navigate to the following key:<br \/>\n<code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Schedule\\Maintenance<\/code><\/li>\n<li>In the left pane, right-click on the <strong>Maintenance<\/strong> key, and then select <strong>New<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/new-dword-value.png\" alt=\"new-dword-value\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8829\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Name the new value <strong>MaintenanceDisabled<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MaintenanceDisabled.png\" alt=\"MaintenanceDisabled\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8830\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Next, double-click on the new value to modify. In the <strong>Value data<\/strong> field, type 1 if you want to disable automatic maintenance (If you want to enable automatic maintenance again, just set its value to 0.) and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/disable-automatic-maintenance.png\" alt=\"disable-automatic-maintenance\" width=\"331\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8831\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Registry Editor and reboot your computer. Now you&#8217;ve successfully disabled automatic maintenance in Windows 10. That&#8217;s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic Maintenance is a built-in feature in Windows 10\/8 that is turned on by default. When your computer is idle, the system will automatically run its maintenance tasks (windows updates, security scanning, disk checking, etc) at the background. Just open the Control Panel in Large icons view, click Security and Maintenance. 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