How to Change and Manually Start and Stop Automatic Maintenance in Windows 8

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Published on Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:00:30 GMT Indexed on 2012/10/22 23:06 UTC
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Windows 8 has a new feature that allows you to automatically run scheduled daily maintenance on your computer. These maintenance tasks run in the background and include security updating and scanning, Windows software updates, disk defragmentation, system diagnostics, among other tasks.

We’ve previously shown you how to automate maintenance in Windows 7, Vista, and XP. Windows 8 maintenance is automatic by default and the performance and energy efficiency has been improved over Windows 7. The program for Windows 8 automatic maintenance is called MSchedExe.exe and it is located in the C:\Windows\System32 directory.

We will show you how you can change the automatic maintenance settings in Windows 8 and how you can start and stop the maintenance manually.

NOTE: It seems that you cannot turn off the automatic maintenance in Windows 8. You can only change the settings and start and stop it manually.

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