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6.1.2. Automatic Maintenance
The Automatic Maintenance is particularly useful for all users who do not want to worry about the
maintenance of their computer. As its name suggests, Automatic Maintenance regularly and automatically
performs the most important maintenance work on your system to ensure that Windows remains fast and
stable.
The Automatic Maintenance function is also configured so that it performs all maintenance tasks. However,
it is run in the background and only the notifications tell you when it was carried out.
Performing Maintenance
You can specify whether and when Automatic Maintenance should run automatically in the background.
You can even have automatic maintenance run only in idle mode, i.e. it only starts when you are not currently
working on your computer and no programs are required in the background. This way Automatic
Maintenance will never interrupt your work. If you select this option, following the number of days specified by
you, maintenance will be attempted as soon as your computer is in idle mode. Three days is selected by
default.
If, after a period of a week, it was not possible to perform full maintenance because your computer was not in
idle mode for long enough then - if you enable this option - maintenance will be carried out anyway. This
prevents your computer from not being maintained over a long period of time.
If you choose scheduled maintenance, the procedure is similar: If your computer is not switched on at the time
of scheduled maintenance, Automatic Maintenance is performed 5 minutes after you next start your PC.
This option can also be disabled.
If you work with a portable computer, you can also specify - in addition to the other options - that you don't
want maintenance to be performed when the computer is running off the battery, so as not to reduce the
battery life unnecessarily. This option is enabled by default.
6.1.3. Changing Maintenance Settings
In the Start Center, click on the Change maintenance settings link in the Maintain system area of the
Status & recommendations category. The central AVG PC TuneUp configuration dialog opens, with an area
for Automatic Maintenance and one for 1-Click Maintenance. Configure your settings here.
Alternatively, you can open the maintenance settings window by going to Overview of all functions in the
Start Center and selecting the Settings entry under AVG PC TuneUp. Or click on Settings in the Start
Center menu bar and select the Automatic Maintenance or 1-Click Maintenance area.
Because AVG PC TuneUp preferably wants to provide comprehensive maintenance for your computer, all
maintenance tasks are activated by default for both Automatic Maintenance and 1-Click Maintenance.
However, if you do not want certain maintenance tasks to be performed, you can exclude them from
maintenance. For example, if you would rather defragment your hard disk manually, simply clear the
Defragment hard disks checkbox.