Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 and 11

Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 and 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,

And performing other necessary security & maintenance routines.

Automatic maintenance is set up on all Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers and is scheduled to run at 2:00 AM every day. You can change the scheduled time to any time you choose.

If your computer is turned off, Automatic Maintenance won’t run until your computer is on and running but idle. If your computer is asleep, Automatic maintenance won’t run until your computer is awake and idle.

If you normally allow your computer to sleep, you can change these settings so that Automatic Maintenance will wake your computer to run Automatic Maintenance. And we think that is a good idea.

From the Automatic maintenance dialog, you can also generate a reliability report and/or change the time Windows Automatic maintenance runs.

How to access the Automatic maintenance settings…

1. In the taskbar search, type “Control”
2. Click on Control Panel when it appears at the top.
3. In Control Panel switch to Large Icon view and click on Security & Maintenance.
4. Click on Maintenance (see screenshot below).

5. In the Maintenance dialog, you can generate a reliability report by clicking “View reliability history”. If you want to change the time automatic maintenance runs, click “Change maintenance settings”.

6. In Maintenance settings you can change the time 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.