How to disable background apps on Windows 10

After a somewhat fluctuating start, following its publication in 2015, due to a whole series of youth problems, the system, distributed by Microsoft as a constantly updated service, begins to gain considerable success in the business and consumer world.

There are a number of features from which many users do not take any advantage and do nothing but keep the computer hardware under stress, also reducing the autonomy of the batteries of mobile devices, such as notebooks or tablets. The apps open in the background are certainly one of the major causes of this problem. Today I will show you how to disable background apps on Windows 10.

Open the Settings menu

The first step is to open the Windows settings menu. To do this, just click with the left mouse button on the Start button and then click with the same button on the settings button located on the left vertical bar (the one with the gear).

Access the Privacy menu

After clicking on the Settings button, a window will open with various icons. The next step is to click with the left mouse button on the icon with the Privacy padlock. Then I will show you how to get the same final result by clicking on the first icon, or System.

Access apps in the background

At this point, you will see the privacy window open in front of you, divided into two parts. In the left area, click on the App in the Background submenu. At this point, the area on the right will be filled with icons of all the applications installed on the computer with the switches next to them to activate or deactivate the background work.

Now it’s up to you to decide which apps you want to continue working in the background and which ones don’t, keeping in mind that disabling the background activities will also stop notifications relating to those applications.

Deactivate apps with an alternative method

As mentioned above, it is possible to disable the background activities of your applications in an alternative, although certainly less convenient and direct way. After opening the Settings window from the Windows Start menu, you will need to click on the System icon.

From the menu just opened, just click on the Battery Saver button on the left and then on the blue writing ” Battery use, ” placed exactly below the battery charge percentage. At this point, the list of applications will pop up and you just have to select the application whose activity you want to limit in the background, click on the Details button that will have appeared, and in the newly opened, the window slides the switch relating to ” Allow execution in the background of this app ” to Disabled.