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Maintenance settings, 8.1 HOME!
Is there any way to change the maintenance settings in the Home version?
So far, all the searches are listing sites that tell you how to do it in Pro. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 42.0 Thunderbird 31.5 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Maintenance settings, 8.1 HOME!
Ken Springer wrote:
Is there any way to change the maintenance settings in the Home version? So far, all the searches are listing sites that tell you how to do it in Pro. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html http://www.thewindowsclub.com/automa...ance-windows-8 That setting is not available in your Home edition? In an online search, I found no mention automatic maintenance was a Pro-only feature. Seems your only choices a - Run automatically (when idle). - Run at a scheduled time. - Disable it (via Task Scheduler). An online search found: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...=vs.85%29.aspx So you can defin XML files inputted by schtasks or use C to interface with the TaskSch API. Once inputted, I don't know where the settings are stored. Maybe in the tasks files under %windir%\Tasks, or might be saved in registry entries. (The above was found via online search. I never bothered with Win8.) |
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Maintenance settings, 8.1 HOME!
On 11/29/15 2:33 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: Is there any way to change the maintenance settings in the Home version? So far, all the searches are listing sites that tell you how to do it in Pro. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html http://www.thewindowsclub.com/automa...ance-windows-8 That setting is not available in your Home edition? In an online search, I found no mention automatic maintenance was a Pro-only feature. Thanks, VanguardLH, I own the Pro version, the Home belongs to a friend of mine. I was expecting to find the same screen in Home that is in Pro. We were using the screenshare feature of Skype and I completely missed the arrow in the Action Center when I looked there. In Pro, you can get to the screen to set the time to update Windows from Windows Update in the Control Panel, which is where I started in looking for when it would check for updates. But that option is not available in Home. We've check marked the option to wake the computer in the night, which is going to let her do what she wants. Seems your only choices a - Run automatically (when idle). - Run at a scheduled time. - Disable it (via Task Scheduler). An online search found: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...=vs.85%29.aspx So you can defin XML files inputted by schtasks or use C to interface with the TaskSch API. Once inputted, I don't know where the settings are stored. Maybe in the tasks files under %windir%\Tasks, or might be saved in registry entries. (The above was found via online search. I never bothered with Win8.) I'm not using 8 either, just have it to help friends and others. But I am trying to find the time to explore W10, and need to get into El Capitan. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 42.0 Thunderbird 31.5 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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