In Windows 10, some apps are always running in the background. Microsoft designed Windows 10 to run apps constantly to provide notifications to users and keep those apps updated with content that they fetch from the internet. There are plenty of users who never use the Store apps, but they still run in the background and consume system resources. Let's see how to stop them and free system resources.
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Out of the box, some Universal apps are already enabled to run in the background in Windows 10. You may have never opened those apps, not even once and may not need them, but they are running anyway. Alarms and Clock, Photos, Store and some other apps are set to work in the background. The Alarms and Clock app for example is able to show you an alarm notification if you have set one when it is running.
In Windows 10, there is a special section in the Settings app which allows you to manage which apps can run in the background. There, it is possible to prevent some apps from running constantly.
You are done. This will not require any additional action from you like restarting or signing out. Changes will take effect immediately. If you change your mind about re-enabling the background apps you disabled, you can always return to this Background apps page and enable them. That's it.
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Windows 10 is a ray of hope to a new type of app ecosystem that Microsoft is pushing in hopes all developers adopt it as standard. These UWP or Universal Windows Platform apps can be found in the company’s Windows, Store, and in many ways, they operate differently from the traditional Win32 apps, but by nature, they are the same.
Like the regular Win32 apps, these apps can drain your battery if they are left to run in the background. The thing is, many of these apps need to run in the background in order for the user to take advantage of the full feature set. You see, for such things as live tiles and notifications to work, UWP apps must run in the background at all times.
Seeing as the information for live tiles and notifications are usually delivered from the cloud, UWP apps should drain less power from your battery when compared to Win32 apps, but this has yet to be tested by us, so it is still up in the air.
Stop Windows 10 apps from running in the background
There are two ways to do this, but first, we are going to look at how to stop specific apps from running – you know, the ones that are not overly important.
To accomplish this, click on the Start Menu then open the Settings apps. Click on Privacy, then scroll down to the option that says, Background Apps.
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From here, you should see a list of apps that have permission to run in the background. Under Let apps run in the background section, simply use the toggle off/on switches to perform the relevant task. Keep in mind that apps such as the Alarm and Mail apps should always run in the background if they are used on a regular basis.
Turning them off means you won’t get awaken by the Alarm bell, and you won’t get notifications or live tile updates when a new email has arrived.
When you reduce the apps that can run in the background, you will definitely conserve power as well as make your PC run better.
Another way of stopping UWP apps from running in the background, is simply, turning On the Battery Saver mode. Do this, and all apps will cease from running in the background right away. This is great for when you’re away from a power supply and want to get the most out of your battery’s energy.
To do this, click on the battery icon situated in the notification area, then click on the Battery Saver option to complete the task. See that? The whole process is as easy as saying your ABCs, so there should be no more complaints about battery problems in the future.
Hope this helps!
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May 20th 2016 UPDATE: We have a solution to disabling the STORE in Windows 10 Pro using a Group Policy Object . To avoid confusion I started a new post HERE.
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JANUARY 28 2016 UPDATE: I have found this GPO to cause the STORE to fail to download apps but it does not block the store outright like it did in Windows 8. “Roy” in Microsoft Partner Support, worked with the Windows Dev Team to find out that this policy only works on Windows 10 ENTERPRISE and intentionally does not work on Windows 10 Pro.
We are working on finding a solution that does not involve deleting (or renaming) the Store app in every profile. In case you want to do that the path to the Windows 10 Store is C:Users<USER>AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe
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In Windows 8 you could disable the Microsoft STORE app using the Local Group Policy editor:
You can use the above path to disable the Windows STORE in Windows 10 if you are on a corporate network with a Windows Domain Controller, using your Active Directory GROUP POLICY assuming you have loaded the Windows 10 ADMX template (click to download directly from Microsoft)
However the STORE key does not exist in Windows 10 LOCAL Group Policy, sooo you need to edit the registry manually:
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