

However, if you’re looking to squeeze that little bit more battery life out of an old laptop or you’re running into performance slowdowns, this could help. Microsoft, and Windows developers, have designed background activity to be quite efficient. One allows you to disable background activity for specific or all apps, and the other lets you specific a battery percentage where background activity will be limited.īefore we start, you should be aware that when you turn off background apps in Windows 10 you’re unlikely to see a sudden and dramatic increase in your battery life. We’ll be teaching you how to do this today, using a couple of different methods. As such, it’s useful to know how to stop apps from running in the background so you can turn off the ones you don’t use. However, all this background use can also drain your battery life and bandwidth or affect your performance. Allowing an app to run in the background allows programs to perform tasks such as delivering notifications, updating its content, and update their live tiles.


1 How to Turn Off Background Apps in Windows 10 via Privacy Settings.
