Windows 8.1/10 never stops with maintenance when idle?

[P4-630]

We have 3 windows 8.1 laptops and when idle they continuously do windows maintenance, they never stop and never end until you move the mouse.

I recently built a new desktop PC running windows 8.1 and my desktop PC does finish maintenance in about 10-15 minutes or so every day.

With this poll I want to see if it's only a windows 8.1/10 laptop installation never finishes with maintenance and if a windows 8.1/10 desktop PC install always finishes with maintenance.

Strange.

 

[qubit]

Laptops are PCs - you mean to distinguish between a laptop and a desktop. They work the same way too and in both cases all that thrashing should normally stop after a while.

If it doesn't, then you can use Task Manager and the click on the performance link to see what program is hammering the drive.

 

[P4-630]

Laptops are PCs - you mean to distinguish between a laptop and a desktop. They work the same way too and in both cases all that thrashing should normally stop after a while.

If it doesn't, then you can use Task Manager and the click on the performance link to see what program is hammering the drive.

Thanks, yeah I meant desktop (PC)
I can't change it anymore, anyways I think people are getting it.

Are you using 8.1 or 10 on your laptop?

Ok I will leave the task manager running when idle maintenance is running on a laptop and hope to see what it's actually doing.

 

[qubit]

Ok, when you do, have the read/write column active with the max bytes at the top (arrow pointing downwards). This will ensure that the app that's hammering the HD the most shows up at the top regardless of whether it's reading or writing.

 

[P4-630]

Ok, when you do, have the read/write column active with the max bytes at the top (arrow pointing downwards). This will ensure that the app that's hammering the HD the most shows up at the top regardless of whether it's reading or writing.

Ok, so it appears that Antimalware Service Executable, System, Service Host: Local Service (Network Restricted) are causing it.
I had no other apps or windows open during the test.

After the test (about an hour) I was checking if there was a scan done with windows defender, NONE

While after 10 minutes or so maintenance, my desktop PC did do a scan in windows defender.

 

[MrGenius]

Generally only takes a few minutes or less on my Windows 10 PC. My Vista PC never stops. I have no idea what it's doing. But it's ALWAYS doing something.

I should also add Windows 10 doesn't seem to care if it's idle or not. I can be busy gaming and it still decides it's a good time to do maintenance too. Now that I find rather annoying. Since it usually drops my fps quite a bit in the process.

 

[JATownes]

Ok, so it appears that Antimalware Service Executable, System, Service Host: Local Service (Network Restricted) are causing it.
I had no other apps or windows open during the test.

After the test (about an hour) I was checking if there was a scan done with windows defender, NONE

While after 10 minutes or so maintenance, my desktop PC did do a scan in windows defender.

My Win10 desktop does this as well, using the exact same processes, but as Genius said above, it does this sometimes while my rig is active. It is VERY frustrating!

I never "feel" it doing the maintenance, I simply see it through my monitoring software.

JAT

 

[Drone]

Windows 10 is really active even more than Windows 8.1. Telemetry, disk optimization, antimalware activity, windows update, sending error reports (especially for insider preview builds) and lots of other stuff under the hood. Many of that things can't be turned off in principle. More is less or whatever they call it. It's inevitable I guess. New versions, new features, new headache but the damn thing is stable lol

 

[amit_talkin]

Task Schedular > Task Schedular Library > Microsoft > Windows

Now check settings for chkdsk, disk diagnostic, defrag, maintanance, shell, storage tier management etc and disable respective settings. it will stop maintaining those things while your PC is idle.