How to Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10

By Timothy Tibbetts

on 06/29/2023

Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 automatically runs maintenance on a daily schedule at a time you pick, or when the computer is not being used, usually at night. Maintenance can include Windows Updates, security scans, diagnostics, and software updates. In this tutorial, we show you how to disable or enable Automatic Maintenance.

You can change the time Automatic Maintenance times and whether it can wake Windows by following this tutorial.

If you'd like to enable or disable Automatic Maintenace, we can make a simple registry change, or apply registry files. You should back up your registry first.

Disable or Enable Automatic Maintenance With Registry Files

Download Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10, and extract the two files:

Disable Automatic Maintenance.reg
Enable Automatic Maintenance.reg (Default)

Double-click Disable Automatic Maintenance.reg or Disable Automatic Maintenance.reg to enable or disable Disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10.

Click Yes when prompted by User Account Control.
Click Yes when prompted by Registry Editor.

Click OK when prompted by the Registry Editor.

This tweak is included as part of MajorGeeks Registry Tweaks.

Disable or Enable Automatic Maintenance With Regedit

Open the Registry Editor and type HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Maintenance in the address bar.

Create a New > DWORD > ImmersiveContextMenu by right-clicking on the right pane.

Double-click ImmersiveContextMenu and change the Value data.

Enable - 0 (or delete)
Disable - 1

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