


If you look in Service Control Manager (services. Hold down the Windows Key and press R to bring up the Run command box. As a result, when the GP client is done doing it’s job, it waits for 10 minutes of inactivity, then the service shuts down. This setting will prevent Group Policy from updating until you logout or restart the computer. Such is the case with the Group Policy Client Service in Windows 8, which only needs to do work when background or foreground GP processing is occurring (background processing is that thing that happens every 90 minutes or so), or when you issue a gpupdate. Microsoft Surface or similar tablets) Windows 8 in general has been optimized to use less resources, especially when they are not needed. In order to live in a world of new Windows 8 devices that use less power or may be on all the time (e.g. I saw a thread on the Microsoft TechNet forums yesterday that prompted me to write a quick post about this behavior change for the Group Policy client service in Windows 8.
