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John Billekens | Notes from the field

Windows 8 Maintenance jobs

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Citrix Provisioning Services Uncategorized
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John Billekens
Technical Consultant | End User Computing

Windows 8 has some new maintenance jobs. These are great when you have an physical machine. But not when you’re using Citrix PVS to stream the OS. To disable these tasks enter the following commands:

schtasks /change /TN "MicrosoftWindowsTaskSchedulerIdle Maintenance" /disable
psexec -s schtasks /change /TN "MicrosoftWindowsTaskSchedulerMaintenance Configurator" /disable
schtasks /change /TN "MicrosoftWindowsTaskSchedulerManual Maintenance" /disable
schtasks /change /TN "MicrosoftWindowsTaskSchedulerRegular Maintenance" /disable

psexec can be downloaded here To see if i’s dsiabled:

SCHTASKS /Query

Look for “Folder: MicrosoftWindowsTaskScheduler”

Folder: MicrosoftWindowsTaskScheduler
TaskName                                 Next Run Time          Status
======================================== ====================== ===============
Idle Maintenance                         N/A                    Disabled
Maintenance Configurator                 N/A                    Disabled
Manual Maintenance                       N/A                    Disabled
Regular Maintenance                      N/A                    Disabled