Automatic maintenance of windows 10 how to disable it?

Microsoft has been adding new functionality to its latest Windows 10 operating system and improving others that were already present in previous versions, such as Windows 8.1. One of them is Automatic Maintenance, a somewhat hidden functionality in the system that is responsible for checking for application updates or running Windows Defender for malware.

Configure and disable Automatic Maintenance

Automatic maintenance is a feature that is activated by default and there is even a predefined schedule to perform this maintenance without the user hardly noticing it. Microsoft assures that this function does not affect the performance of the equipment in any way and can even act at times when the computer is not being used.

Automatic Maintenance is also present in Windows 8.1, so if you have this system installed, the following tutorial will also be useful to all users of this system.

Set up Auto Maintenance in Windows 10

According to Microsoft (taking it with tweezers), deactivating this function is not recommended at all, so much so that from the Control Panel it is impossible to deactivate it.

What we can do from the Automatic Maintenance options is modify the time in which it will act. To access it we will have to open the Control Panel and go to Security and maintenance > Maintenance. We can also directly search for the option in the control panel and search for '' Change the automatic maintenance settings '' . The latter would be the simplest, because we have already warned that finding this option from the Control Panel can be a little difficult with the naked eye.

Already within the options we are going to find this screen where there is not much to customize, except for the time when we want it to be activated every day and a box for the computer to automatically turn on for this task. Let's make the changes that seem to us and choose a time when we are not using the computer.

Turn off Automatic Maintenance

There are unintelligible decisions by Microsoft and this is one of them, we can not deactivate this option, for this we will have to resort to registry modifications.

To deactivate the automatic maintenance we are going to enter Regedit and look for the following path:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Schedule \ MaintenanceOnce there we position ourselves in the MaintenanceDisabled entry and change the value to 1.

Last conclusions

In my personal opinion, if they don't use apps from the Windows 10 store to check for updates automatically, Auto Maintenance can be disabled without any problem or risk. The presence of Windows Defender or other anti-malware acting in real time should suffice and there is no need for a periodic scan of the disk for malwares every day.

While the performance impact shouldn't be felt, it may in certain situations if it does, such as when we're running multiple virtual machines at the same time and it matches other scheduled tasks, in these situations we might notice our PC slower than normal, which is quite annoying.

You may also be interested in our tutorial on How to disable Windows Update in Windows 10

The best thing in these cases is to disable the function, since the background tasks in Windows 10 are usually quite erratic, such as a Windows Defender and its real-time protection that activates on its own, even if you have previously disabled it or incredible decisions such as not being able to disable Windows Update automatic updates normally.

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I hope this tutorial has been useful to you and I'll see you next time.