Administration Adware Spyware Apache Bluetooth DOS Commands Edge General Internet Connection Internet Explorer Media Center Media Player Mozilla Firefox MS Access Performance PHP Programming Security Silverlight Tips Tools Tutorials Windows 10 Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows Phone Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2016 Windows Vista Windows XP

"Metadata Refresh" Scheduled Task on Windows 8

Q

What is the scheduled task "\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\Metadata Refresh" on my Windows 8 computer?

✍: FYIcenter.com

A

"\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\Metadata Refresh" is a scheduled task on Windows 8 system added as part of Windows installation.

You will see "\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\Metadata Refresh" listed on Task Scheduler with the following information: 

Name: Metadata Refresh
Location: \Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup
Description: Performs a device metadata refresh on a periodic basis
Actions: Custom handler
Triggers:
History:

"Metadata Refresh" is scheduled with no triggers.

It is recommented to keep "\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\Metadata Refresh" enabled as a scheduled task.

 

⇒System Scheduled Tasks on Windows 8

⇒⇒Windows 8 Scheduled Tasks

2016-12-30, 1565👍, 0💬

Administration Adware Spyware Apache Bluetooth DOS Commands Edge General Internet Connection Internet Explorer Media Center Media Player Mozilla Firefox MS Access Performance PHP Programming Security Silverlight Tips Tools Tutorials Windows 10 Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows Phone Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2016 Windows Vista Windows XP