{"id":29856,"date":"2025-02-25T08:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=29856"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:07:36","slug":"all-about-windows-automatic-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/all-about-windows-automatic-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Windows Automatic Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>All About Windows Automatic Maintenance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">This is a tip for Windows 10 and Windows 11<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Windows 10 and 11 have an Automatic Maintenance feature that runs in the background when your computer is idle. This feature helps maintain your PC&#8217;s health and performance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It automates tasks such as disk optimization and defragmentation, updating Windows apps, running security scans, and performing other necessary maintenance routines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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 to run Automatic Maintenance. We think it&#8217;s a good idea to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">From the Automatic maintenance dialog, you can generate a reliability report and\/or change the time Windows Automatic maintenance runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">How to access the Automatic maintenance settings\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. In the taskbar search, type \u201cControl\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Click on Control Panel when it appears at the top.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. In Control Panel switch to Large Icon view and click on Security &amp; Maintenance.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4. Click on Maintenance (see screenshot below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infove\/images\/2023\/maintain0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows Tips &amp; Tricks\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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 that automatic maintenance runs,\u00a0 click on \u201cChange maintenance settings\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infove\/images\/2023\/maintain.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows Tips &amp; Tricks\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infove\/images\/2023\/automain1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips &amp; Tricks\" width=\"567\" height=\"258\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; All About 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. This feature helps maintain your PC&#8217;s health and performance. It automates tasks such as disk optimization and defragmentation, updating Windows apps, running\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/all-about-windows-automatic-maintenance\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29856"}],"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=29856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29859,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29856\/revisions\/29859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}