Turn off background applications in Windows 10 1803

The 1803 version of Windows 10 as well as the pre- 1809 come with an error. The option that prohibits running applications in the background does not work properly. See what you can do.

In Windows 10, some store applications always run in the background. Microsoft designed Windows 10 to run some applications continuously to provide you with notifications but also to keep those applications constantly up to date. Applications such as weather-related, news, messages, games, etc. There are many users who never use the Store applications, but still run them in the background and consume system resources.

Thus, by default, some applications are already enabled to run in the background. You may never have opened them, not even once, and you may not need them, but they do run anyway. The clock, notifications, photos, store, and some other applications are set to run in the background.

In Windows 10, there is a special section in the "Settings" application that allows you to manage which applications will run in the background and which will not. From there you can stop running some applications. Let's see how.

1. Open Settings.
2. Go to "Privacy".
3. From there, scroll down until you find and go to "Background Applications".
4. Disable applications you do not intend to use from the list.

You will also see that you can disable them all at once by just one click on “Allow apps to run in the background”. However, either with the global switch or individually, the command on Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1809 does not work as expected. For some reason, the OS still activates background apps automatically after reboot or shutdown of the computer. See the solution you have, until the problem is fixed.

1. Open Registry Editor.
2. Go to the following registry key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ BackgroundAccessApplications

3. In the right window, modify or if it does not exist, create a new one DWORD 32-Bit with value name Migrated . (Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you must create a 32-bit DWORD value).
4. Set its value to 4 in hexadecimal.
5. Restart Windows 10.

This will solve the problem. The "Allow applications to run in the background" switch is now off.

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