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How to Disable Background Apps Windows 11
Disable Background Apps in the Settings app
1. Launch the Windows Settings app.
2. Click "Apps" on the left sidebar, then "Apps & features."
3. Locate the app, then click the "three-dots" button to the right of the app's name and select "Advanced options."
If the "Advanced options" option is not available, then the app does not support managing its background app permission.
4. Under the section "Background app permissions," select "Never" from the dropdown list.
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Disable Background Apps in the Battery Settings
1. Launch the Windows Settings app.
2. Click "System" in the left sidebar.
3. Click "Power & battery" on the right side.
4. Click "Battery usage" under the "Battery" section.
5. Then, in the section "Battery usage by app" locate the app, then click the "three-dots" button to the right of the app's name, and then choose "Manage background activity."
If the "Manage background activity" option is not available, then the app does not support managing its background app permission.
6. Under the section "Background app permissions," select "Never" from the dropdown list.
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Disable Background Apps for all users with Group Policy Editor
1. Enter gpedit.msc into the Run text box by pressing Win + R.
2. Navigate to "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\App Privacy"
3. Double-click the "Let Windows apps run in the background" policy in the right pane.
4. Select the "Disabled" choice, then select "Apply" and "OK."
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Latest windows 11 doesn't have this. nothing seems to work when it comes to this. My view is if it's not broken why fix it? Windows 10 was great. I don't understand why windows feels the need to make their Os more and more commercial and not aimed for performance and functionality? We should be able to control what runs in the background and what does not. Once upon a time you could find the background aps tab in task manager too and chose to deny the run of the apps that way too .We spend too much money on our computers to have windows bring us unnecessary stuff and deny us the ability to control what is running on our computers.
- This is super helpful, thanks for the steps!
- Click on the Startup tab to see which programs are set to run at startup. Disabling unnecessary startup programs can help reduce background activity.
- Why I can't do this with a new admin account? It is not the root admin.
hazarika absolute legend
& just for clarity and hopefully to help someone.
This is where the App Privacy list is on a Windows 11 pc.Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > App Privacy
Thanks for this!!
On should go through all 15o+ of their apps like this? It was much easier in Windows 10. What a piece of Shtammarjaved
David1826 Disable Background Apps for all users with Group Policy Editor
1. Enter gpedit.msc into the Run text box by pressing Win + R.
2. Navigate to "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\App Privacy"
3. Double-click the "Let Windows apps run in the background" policy in the right pane.
4. Select the "Disabled" choice, then select "Apply" and "OK."- Does settings this to disabled actually disable background apps, or just disable the policy that manages them?
in the latest update of windows 11 this is impossible to find the background app ammarjaved
- This is great and thank you for the information. But like in Win 10 is there a way to disable all background apps instead of having to do it individually on every application?
Thanks,
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