Windows 8.1, how to disable idle tasks?

Okay this is driving me nuts. I've cleared out all the scheduled tasks in the scheduler yet whenever I leave my computer idle, within a few minutes I hear my fan crank up and look at my system tray and sure enough, the flag has that little timer on it. I don't need or want the background tasks. It would be nice to be able to have my computer idle so I can stream media to my TV without the fans going all loud. Any help?

 

It could be system maintenance, not sure where you can disable that one, but letting it complete once should leave you bother free for a while, it can be disabled that I'm pretty sure of.

 

I wouldn't mind it but it ran every time the computer went idle yesterday, it was around 6 hours or so that it kept popping on before it finished but I suppose I'll leave it. Its odd that Windows 10 doesn't exhibit the same behavior nor does base Windows 8, it started after the 8.1 update 1 or whatever they call service packs now.

 

You can adjust the windows maintenance inside the task scheduler.

 

I deleted everything which it replaced so I disabled them all and they all show disabled but something is still active somewhere.

 

Sometimes it can be a driver that is hung up.

 

I thought about that too but the hard drive kicks up and the flag with the clock symbol on it denotes idle tasks. It's not viral because a fresh 8.1 install will do it after update 1 and just to make sure I have run full scans for all types of malware. I've just decided to ignore it, it stops as soon as I move the mouse and if it bugs me I'll just shut the lid and put the machine to sleep lol.

 

You can put windows maintenance to start when you locking the workstation. Hard to explain with my bad English. But you can avoid this Windows maintenance garbage to starts at inopportune times. If you do not stop this garbage, you risk that maintenance starts when you for example run heavy benchmark tests. LoL. But as I said; you can get this garbage to not start. Quite perverse that Windows maintenance not understand that the processor working full when processor run heavy benchmark tests but stops when you touch the mouse. Windows at its very best (worst).
Edit: By locking the workstation I mean that the maintenance only starts when you lock the screen..