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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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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