System Maintenance Notification in Win 10

[Andrew]

I have a Windows notification which says "system maintenance" with a red circle and an X in it.

I have never seen this before, does anyone know what it means ?.

Andrew

[Andy Burns]

Screenshot?

[Andrew]

Do you mean post a screenshot ?. I don't have an account anywhere where I could put it.

The top secction that has the cancel "x" says "Security and Maintenance" and below it is a red circle with a white Cross and the text "System Maintenance" and below that 13:57

I'll go and peruse the windows admin tools and see if anything has been logged.

[Andrew]

Hmm there is something in Wiki which I will study for a while ..

also something here

[Andrew]

After going into the control panel app for Security and maintenance, under Maintenance it said

Automatic maintence No action needed last run 23/3/21 15:03 Windows automatically schedules maintenance on your computer

Must be something that runs on its own. I don't remember configuring this after the massive upgrade to Win 10 20H2

[Andrew]

Hmm clicking on "Reliablity" in the control panel app brings up a chronological history showing four of these red circles and clicking on them shows stuff like "Windows shut down abnormally", "MMC failure" and the Info blue circle shows 5 successful Windows Updates.

I had no idea this Screen existed.

"MMC" failure is the Microsoft management Console that seems to have a hissy fit whenever I look at the windows logs and I have to kill it with taskmanager. This used to happen on win 7 too, but it doesn't seem to hurt.

[Paul]

System Maintenance may be a Troubleshooter.

I don't think it necessarily cleans eventvwr.msc though.

Paul

Paul

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Yes there seem to be lots of things that trigger that sort of error, a malfunctioning usb device a need to do a back up, indeed almost anything that is not related to something else!

Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

No that is right but the bad shut down can, and I found that a good clean of all usb connected plugs with contact cleaner and a bit of pushing in and out reduced the dodgy lock ups and shut downs no end. My guess is that windows under certain conditions cannot cope with hardware on the blink very well and either locks up or shuts down. Brian

[Andrew]

This one was EDF's fault though, a momentary power failure that switched my Denon HiFi back to standby, and rebooted the PC, though I don't remember the desklamp blinking but I may have missed that.

Andrew