Automatic Maintenance Delayed - Notification Won't Go Away

Jun 24, 2014

Since last night, I've had this Automatic Maintenance notification randomly pop up in Action Center which simply refuses to go away:

I've already run the maintenance multiple times, and it seems to complete just fine, but the notification never goes away and it always tells me the maintenance was delayed after it supposedly finished:

I've also gone into Task Scheduler and manually run the Regular Maintenance task per the solution here, but no dice. Also rebooted the system many times.

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Even though I use a wallpaper background, the workaround with the registry hack solved my slow login times. Now logon is as fast as I expect it.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem
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Here's how:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
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[Code] ....

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Other than plagiarising existing tasks to get what I want, how it's really done?

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