▷ How to disable background applications in windows 10

In being small and quick tutorial we will see how to disable background applications in Windows 10 so that our team is less overloaded and thus be able to obtain better performance. This is especially useful if our computer does not have too many hardware resources such as RAM or CPU memory.

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By deactivating the background application, we will be releasing part of the computer's RAM memory, thus saving resources. And not only the hardware itself but also the battery of our portable equipment since we will be making our equipment work much less.

This procedure is incorporated into Windows 10 natively but only for certain applications, for the rest it will be a little more tedious work.

You can also remove all the applications you want from Windows startup with this tutorial:

Disable background app in Windows 10

The procedure is quite fast for a certain group of applications, since the system incorporates a detection system for these applications to obtain control of their execution ourselves.

We must emphasize that not all will be available in this panel, since there are also services and other internal applications that will need to be working.

To access this panel of applications we will perform the following steps:

• We will go to the start menu and open it to locate an icon of a gear wheel This will be located in the lower left area of the menu and will be the one that opens the configuration. Then we click on it

• Now a configuration window will open in which we will have to locate the icon with the name " Privacy ".

You read that right, privacy. But what does an application selection menu have to do with privacy settings? Honestly we do not understand it either, but the truth is that it is located here. In addition, we also have much more options related to the access of applications to the file system, multimedia content, etc., which is more understandable that they are located here.

• The case is that we must give this option to access the corresponding list

• Now we will have to navigate in the menu on the left side until we find the option “ Applications in the background ”. Click on it to see a large list of applications on the right side of the window.

In this way we will have accessed the applications that the computer allows to run in the background. As we can see, most of them are the typical applications installed natively or installed from the Microsoft Store. Although the truth is that they are little used and take up resources, so it does not hurt to eliminate them from the background execution.

To deactivate an application we will only have to press the corresponding button to deactivate it

Other interesting Privacy options

In this menu it is worth seeing some more options that are interesting and that it may be useful to eliminate them because they are really annoying at times.

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If we place ourselves in the "General" section, we will get a few options regarding how Windows sends us content that is supposed to be relevant to us. Basically they are the notifications that we see occasionally.

• Allow applications to use id. Advertising: if this option is active, Windows will send you advertising depending on what applications you use and where you browse the Internet Let websites offer relevant content locally: with this option activated we will be allowing web pages that we access to send us notifications It allows Windows to track the launching of applications: with this option activated, the system will monitor which applications we use most frequently, in order to keep them active in the background for quicker access to them.

Enable voice, write, comment and history options in Windows 10

Another set of interesting options are located just below "General" in the left side list:

• Voice: if we activate this option, we will enable voice recognition to interact with Cortana through the microphone. Handwriting and writing input customization: with this option activated, Windows will recognize our writing in case we have a Tablet or a handwritten text digitizing device. In this way we can write by hand in it and the system will recognize our letter Comments and diagnoses: this controversial option what it does is sends information to Microsoft about what we are doing in the system. Applications that we open, errors that are presented to us and other actions that supposedly should be private. We recommend activating the " Basic " option.

If we continue further down in this section we will have other options such as " personalized experiences ", " see diagnostic data " that are practically useless if we have them activated

• Activity history: another controversial Windows 10 option if the option “send my activity history to Microsoft” is active, we will be sending information that is supposedly private to the company

These are the most interesting options about the privacy section of Windows 10. As you can see from this menu you can disable some applications that run in the background and consume resources unnecessarily.

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