This is a tip for Windows 10 and Windows 11<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Windows 10 and 11 have an Automatic Maintenance feature that runs in the background when your computer is idle. Windows Automatic Maintenance helps maintain the health and performance of your Windows PC. <\/span><\/p>\n It automates things like disk optimization, disk defragmentation, updating Windows apps, running security scans, and performing other necessary maintenance routines.<\/span><\/p>\n Automatic maintenance is set up on all Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers and it\u2019s scheduled to run at 2:00 AM every day. You can change the scheduled time to any time you choose.<\/span><\/p>\n If your computer is turned off, Automatic Maintenance won\u2019t run until your computer is awake and running but idle. If your computer is asleep, Automatic maintenance won\u2019t run until your computer is awake and idle. But you can change its settings to allow Automatic Maintenance to wake your computer if run Automatic maintenance. And we think it’s a good idea to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n From the Automatic maintenance dialog, you can also generate a reliability report and\/or change the time Windows Automatic maintenance runs.<\/span><\/p>\n How to access the Automatic maintenance settings\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1. In the taskbar search, type \u201cControl\u201d<\/span> 5. While in the Maintenance dialog, you can generate a reliability report by clicking on \u201cView reliability history\u201d. If you want to change the time at which automatic maintenance runs by clicking on \u201cChange maintenance settings\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n 6. In Maintenance settings you can change the time at which Automatic maintenance runs. You can also set Automatic maintenance to wake your computer if your computer is asleep at the time. See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n If you normally put your computer to sleep when you\u2019re not using it, allowing Automatic Maintenance to wake your computer to do its maintenance routines is a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Windows Automatic Maintenance This is a tip for Windows 10 and Windows 11 Windows 10 and 11 have an Automatic Maintenance feature that runs in the background when your computer is idle. Windows Automatic Maintenance helps maintain the health and performance of your Windows PC. It automates things like disk optimization, disk defragmentation, updating Windows apps,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25026,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25024\/revisions\/25026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Click on Control Panel when it appears at the top.<\/span>
\n3. In Control Panel switch to Large Icon view and click on Security & Maintenance.<\/span>
\n4. Click on Maintenance (see screenshot below).<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infove\/images\/2023\/maintain0.png\")
<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infove\/images\/2023\/maintain.png\")
<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infove\/images\/2023\/automain1.png\")
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