How to disable background apps in Windows 10

Windows 10 mobile devices are becoming more popular and common. The launch and success of the Surface has led to many users with Windows 10 mobile devices. Needless to say, Cloudbook and Surface Book are also Windows 10 devices that need battery optimization.

If you have a mobile device and with it you had a battery obstacle, surely you already have it Heard about background apps or apps that keep running after being closed earlier.

Windows 10 automatically manages background apps

As in Android, Windows 10 enables the use of applications that can run in the background, applications that continue to work even if we do not use or need them. On a desktop PC this type of application does not represent a great threat to the autonomy of our equipment, but on a laptop or tablet it is and can even reduce the operation of the equipment.

Despite everything, Windows 10 allows you to automatically close and manage these applications that are in the background.We just have to go to Settings -> Privacy and in the Privacy window, in the side menu, go to the Background Applications tab. After this, a window will open with all the applications that the system allows to run in the background.

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This list is free, in other words, a list that is created automatically but that we can customize and choose which applications we want to run in the background and which ones are not. Then, the application that we do not want to be there, we mark it and right click on it to remove it from the list.

Once the listing is customized, click the close button and reboot the system for the changes to take effect. This is a permanent changeIn other words, if we want applications like email to run in the background again, we have to add them to the list again.