What is Windows 10 Automatic Maintenance feature ? How to Disable this

Did you notice the windowssystem becomes sluggish, Unresponsiveafter you leave it idle for a while?

This might indicate that some task running as part of theAutomatic Maintenancecauses it.

Normally When the system stays idle for flew minutes then Windows automatically runs themaintenance toolin the background.

It is a daily scheduled task that runs out-of-the-box.

For Troubleshooting purposes, you canDisable Windows 10 Automatic Maintenanceand check the OS behavior when it is idle.

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What is Windows Automatic Maintenance?

Before Disable This Feature Lets First understand what isWindows 10 Automatic Maintenance?

How it works on a windows computer and When we need toDisable Windows 10 Automatic MaintenanceFeature.

Automatic Maintenance is a useful feature run daily when the system is on Idle.

Now After Understand the Automatic Maintenance Feature and how It works.

lets discuss How to Disable Windows 10 Automatic Maintenance feature.

Normally Windows 8 and 10 both dont allow you to disable Automatic Maintenance.

But here we have a registry tweak to disable manage Automatic Maintenance feature.

Warning:double-check you back upthe registrybefore following these instructions.

Anyunintentional changes in the registrycould corrupt your system and possibly lead to data loss.

First Press Windows + R, typeregeditin theRundialog and hit the enter key to initiate the Windows registry.

Now Double press New created value (MaintenanceDisabled) to Modify it.

Enter value 1 To Disable Windows 10 Automatic Maintenance.

Click ok and Restart windows To take effect the changes.

Nextdouble-opt for entry to modify itand enter 1 as its value.

This will enable this entry, therefore disable maintenance.

A PCrestart is requiredfor the changes to take effect.

And Tore-enable Automatic Maintenance, just modify the same entry again and add0as its value.

Note: Disabling Automatic Maintenance isnt necessary and you should not do it unless you face any problems.

I hope this post helps you to understand What is Windows 10 Automatic Maintenance feature?

How it works on the windows computer and How to turn off the Automatic Maintenance feature.