How to Use Automatic Maintenance Feature on Windows 10?

Windows operating system provides us lots of tools that can help  you to take care of your computer.

 For example, Windows operating tools comes with a built-in disk clean up tool, file repair utility, RAM management tools, etc. These tools are there to fix various types of problems that occur on a computer.

In fact, if we look back, we will find that the latest Windows 10 operating system has improved a lot when it comes to the maintenance. The operating system offers lots of troubleshooting tools that helps to fix various problems. So, in this article, we are going to talk about the little-known tool known as Automatic Maintenance.Automatic Maintenance is a built-in tool in Windows 10 operating system

 that helps users to keep their computer healthy and well optimized. So, let’s explore more about Windows 10 Automatic Maintenance.

What is Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10?

As we have mentioned early, Automatic Maintenance is a built-in tool in Windows 10 that can help users in multiple ways. It’s basically a system maintenance tool which runs on the background all the time. The tool performs lots of stuff like it fixes the error, defrags your hard drive, runs other optimization services, etc.

The feature automatically runs some related tasks daily at 2 am by default. It works in the background, 

 but only if it’s turned on and sitting idle. So, the Automatic Maintenance feature will run some tasks like system apps updates, malware scans, diagnostics, defragmentation, etc. at the given time period. So, if you turn on your computer after 2 AM or if your computer is not idle at that time, then the Automatic Maintenance will run the tasks on the next schedule.

So, in short, Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 does everything that can improve the overall performance of your device. It combines and runs all major maintenance stuff without affecting the performance or power consumption. So, its indeed a useful tool and everyone should know how to use it.

How to Use Automatic Maintenance on Windows 10?

It’s worth to note that the Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 is turned on by default and it works automatically. However, you can tweak a few settings of Automatic Maintenance to make it more useful. So, here’s how you can use and control Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10.

Step 1. First of all, open Control Panel on your Windows 10 computer.

Step 2. Now, on the control panel, select ‘System and Security’ or ‘Security and Maintenance’

Step 3. Now under the Automatic Maintenance, click on ‘Change Maintenance Settings’

 

Step 4. Next, click on the drop-down menu under the Run Maintenance tasks daily and then set the time you want your system to run the optimization service.

That’s it, you are done! Now just click on the ‘Ok’ button. Now your computer will perform all maintenance and optimization stuff at the time you have set.

How to Disable Automatic Maintenance?

Since Automatic Maintenance is a useful feature, Windows 10 doesn’t provide us an option to disable the feature. However, if you still wish to disable the Automatic Maintenance on Windows 10, then you can try the method given below. We need to play with the registry file to disable Automatic Maintenance. Since editing Registry is risky, we recommend you create a full backup of your PC before following the method.

Step 1. Open the RUN command box and then type in regedit. This will open the Registry file. You need to locate to the:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\SCHEDULE\MAINTENANCE

Step 2. Right click on the Maintenance folder and then select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the key Maintenance Disabled.

Step 3. Now double click on the key that you have just created and then set the value from 0 to 1. Click on ‘Ok’ and then restart your computer.

So, this is how you can disable Automatic Maintenance on Windows 10 computer. However, we don’t recommend you turn off this feature because it’s a crucial process that fixes lots of things on the computer.

So, this is all about Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10. The feature can really help you to make your PC perform better.