Task Scheduler telemetry tasks: which ones to disable

Windows Task Scheduler contains hundreds of built-in tasks. Many of them are telemetry and compatibility checks that run periodically in the background. Here are the ones worth disabling.

How to view scheduled tasks

Get-ScheduledTask | Where-Object {$_.State -ne "Disabled"} | Select-Object TaskName, TaskPath | Sort-Object TaskPath

Tasks to disable

# Application Experience
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\" -TaskName "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser"
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\" -TaskName "ProgramDataUpdater"
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\" -TaskName "StartupAppTask"

# CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program)
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\" -TaskName "Consolidator"
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\" -TaskName "UsbCeip"

# Diagnostic
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Diagnosis\" -TaskName "Scheduled"

# Disk diagnostics
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\DiskDiagnostic\" -TaskName "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector"

# Maps (unnecessary on gaming PCs)
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Maps\" -TaskName "MapsToastTask"
Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Maps\" -TaskName "MapsUpdateTask"

Tasks to leave alone

• Windows Defender scheduled scans — security
• Windows Update tasks — patches
• Storage Sense — harmless if configured correctly
• Time sync (w32tm) — keeps your clock accurate

Impact

Each disabled task is one fewer thing waking up during your gaming session. Individually minor, collectively they add up to a cleaner background.

IzanagiOP disables all listed telemetry tasks as part of Safe Optimizations. https://terweb.lt/