background apps

Every Windows 11 user has faced it at some point: that moment when your PC, once sprightly at startup, starts limping along as the day progresses. Programs take longer to load, browser tabs become sluggish, and sometimes you’re left staring at spinning circles, wondering where all your...

If you have ever been frustrated by your Windows 11 PC stubbornly refusing to shut down, you are not alone. Countless users report encountering the familiar—and often maddening—"This app is preventing you from restarting" error message just as they are wrapping up their workday or trying to...

A funny thing happened on the way to my productivity nirvana—I hit the Close button and, like a horror movie villain, the app kept shambling on, refusing to die. We’ve all been there: you’re calmly shutting down your PC after a productive day, only to be menaced by that one app that absolutely...

It’s astonishing how much of modern life depends on the patient, unglamorous labor performed by our laptops. From the moment we open the lid—caffeinated beverage in hand—they shoulder the burden of our work, hobbies, games, communication, and sometimes even stand in as a one-device home server...

Laptop battery woes are the stuff of modern legend—akin to stories of gremlins in the wiring or that mysterious Windows update that triggers right before an important Zoom call. You know the feeling: you start the day at 100%, but by mid-afternoon, your battery icon is gasping, red-eyed, and...

Imagine this: You've just closed an app on Windows, but in the background, it's still buzzing away—updating itself, pulling notifications, syncing content, and possibly sipping away at your battery. These are the background apps, the quiet performers of your Windows experience, and while they...

As Windows evolves, so does its ability to multitask efficiently. One of the quieter, yet significant, features in Windows 10 and 11 is the handling of background activities by applications. While convenient, these background processes can drain system resources, affect performance, reduce...

Introduction Managing background apps is crucial for maintaining system performance, extending battery life, and mitigating privacy concerns on your Windows 10 or 11 machines. Apps running in the background, even when not in active use, can consume valuable system resources, lead to faster...

In today's world of advanced computing, operating a low-end Windows PC might sound like a struggle. However, a decade ago, a typical setup could feature just 4GB of RAM and no dedicated graphics card while still providing satisfactory performance. If you're still using a low-end device or simply...

Diablo IV players frequently report stuttering issues that hinder gameplay. Stuttering can manifest as sudden drops in frame rates (FPS) or frame stuttering, where the graphics processing unit (GPU) struggles to keep up, leading to freeze-like effects. These problems can render the game...

Hi my pc: 108500K stock 4800mhz 2x16 GB DDR4 GSKILL 3200mhz XMP Seasonic Tx-850 Ultra Titanium Gigabyte Rtx 3090 Gaming OC Aorus Z490 Pro Gaming 1 TB SSD I have updated Windows 10 to H20,the newest version. I installed windows 10 month ago with new pc. So far so good,games not crashing all...

Help I'm encountering 100 percent disk problem as you can see in this picture I have tried everything to fix it like disabling sys main windows search and background and start-up apps I also did an antivirus scan but there were no threats detected then I try to run a dism command then I checked...

I have an Intel i7, and at times I can hear my laptop doing a lot work. I open the task manager to see which app uses so much cpu, and I'd see the cpu usage would be 100%, and 5 seconds later it'd drop down to 20%. I'm pretty sure it's not a visual bug in the task manager because I can literally...

Can anyone help me with the installation of the Chrome browser on a Windows 7 SP1 with Internet Explorer desktop computer? I would like to try it but a year or so ago I installed Chrome and I had an awful time with my computer. It really slowed down and had mouse lag. I could not figure out what...

I installed windowns 10 on a newly build Pc and after I switched on Pc and started to install mother board drivers(its not coz of motherboard driver),my screen goes black then goes back to normal but with no mouse,apps running on backgroud but no GUI on screen,after I restart PC the monitor...

So I recently upgraded to win 10 from win 7 and my internet speed is really slow. I went from 8mbs to 0.7mbs. Cant watch streams and it takes a while to open any sites. Meanwhile on my laptop which is using win 8 the internet is fine on that, even when im connected to the internet on my win 10...

Check your setting on your pc immediately if you installed the updates for Windows 10 Tuesday. A lot of my pc's settings changed, as Tuesday's update gave us a new version of Windows 10. Setting's it changed on my pc: Power Plan got switched from High Performance to Balanced. Privacy/Background...

Okay having a very annoying issue with win10 as of late and its been baffling the heck out of me, my CPU fan without any good reason speeds up every so often in windows 10. It doesnt do it in Linux, I have tried an array of software removals, virus scans, system shutdowns, cleaning dust out my...

Xbox One updates that Microsoft has in the works will allow for apps to run in the background and the system to be used as a dev kit, according to a new report. After announcing last month that universal Windows 10 apps are coming to Xbox One , The Verge reports Microsoft will offer further...

Hello, this summer, my wife and I purchased a new HP F9H96UA#ABA and it has windows 8. We don't have a touch screen, and like many others, I miss windows 7. It has an AMD A8 Processor, and 4gb of ram. We are not doing intense gaming, etc, but we mostly surf, and pictures, etc. I downloaded...