Questions tagged [automatic-maintenance]

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How to provide automated Hard Drive maintenance on Windows (7-10)?

I just had two drives go bad. Looks like faulty sectors. But I run chkDsk regularly. Unfortunately, it's a manual process. Also, you have to look at the report and read the # of bad sectors, rather than having a simple flag that pops up only WHEN…
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Windows 8.1 Automatic Maintenance - What's REALLY going on under the hood?

I have been playing around with Windows 8.1 with a view to upgrade from Windows 7. The one thing holding me back is the insane amount of Automatic Maintenance that occurs. My test: Decent PC (i5-3570 CPU @ 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Intel SSD 520 120GB…
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Windows 8 automatic maintenance freezes after regedit

I have now ran into this problem twice. When Windows starts automatic maintenance the computer becomes non-responsive and eventually freezes. And both times I was able to backtrack the problem to editing registry. Undoing the changes in registry…
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Compile from source and ensure updatability

I would like to setup a new server with the following packages Ngnix with SPDY and PageSpeed extension PHP-FPM with Phalcon extension MySQL with Sphinx extension Sphinx In order to have the most recent versions and for the case of SPDY and…
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Automatic Maintenance Significantly Slows Down Computer

Problem I've found on several occasions that I've gone to use my computer only to find that it's practically unusable; just about everything runs extremely slowly. Symptoms The action center flag in the notification area showed that maintenance was…
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Why can't I disable shortcut / desktop icon delete without disabling important maintenance?

I don't want Windows 10 to remove shortcuts from my task bar or icons from my desktop for any reason. And yet apparently the only way to disable this behavior, is to also disable the entire Scheduled Maintenance task, which includes time…
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Is is possible to create a batch file or something similar to run CCleaner, MalwareBytes, and Defraggler once a month?

I am looking for an easy way for my clients to run one simple command that will do these 3 tasks once a month: Run Cleaner (CCleaner) Scan C Drive (Malwarebytes) defrag C Drive (Defraggler) These are all manual tasks, and I am having trouble…
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Windows x86 Cumulative Update causing the PC to go into Automatic Repair

My Grandpa's ASUS Laptop is running on Windows 10 32 bit and recently he received a notification requesting him to install some updates.The updates are Windows cumulative update for x86 architecture (Windows 10 Version 1607 for x86-based Systems…
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