Never-ending 'Maintenance in progress' on Windows 8.1

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On Windows 8.1, My action centre flag (telling me 'Maintenance in progress') won't stop or go away. I've left it for two days now and it's still there. There are no details and I've tried stopping it and starting it and have restarted the PC several times. What is causing this?

The PC is only weeks old. I'm running an SSD and an SSHD, so any defragging should be minimal.

Any idea what is causing it or how I can stop it without disabling maintenance altogether?

Edit: I was asked to move this answer to a new question because it was on a different operating system (8.1 not 8). It was down-voted there, so I created this question with 8.1 clearly marked.

Astravagrant

Posted 2015-02-03T16:00:12.927

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Question was closed 2015-02-10T08:35:05.537

Answers

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Try turning on (or restarting) OneDrive synchronising. I'd disabled this to see if it was causing some stuttering in games and when I re-enabled it, the action flag disappeared immediately.

All other causes of the 'busy' clock-icon appearing are explained by clicking on it, in my experience. The message in the pop-up details the work in progress.

Astravagrant

Posted 2015-02-03T16:00:12.927

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1Should this be an answer or a comment to your own question, Chandra? – duDE – 2015-02-03T16:13:49.423

@dude - Its an answer to his similar problem that somebody else had with Windows 8 but he experienced the problem with Windows 8.1 which of course is the reason its not a duplicate.

– Ramhound – 2015-02-03T16:18:47.597

Thanks, and yes, it's an answer to a question I had that I couldn't append to an answer list elsewhere: http://superuser.com/questions/677525/never-ending-maintenance-in-progress/873107#873107

– Astravagrant – 2015-02-03T16:25:56.097

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