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Performance

Disable Background Apps

Prevents UWP apps from running in the background.

Benefit

Saves CPU, RAM and network bandwidth

Impact

medium

Commands (2)

reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\BackgroundAccessApplications" /v GlobalUserDisabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppPrivacy" /v LetAppsRunInBackground /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

Warnings

  • May prevent notifications from UWP apps