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How to See What Apps are Running in the Background in Windows 10

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Some Windows 10 apps have permission to run in the background so they can change their live tiles, fetch new data, and receive updates. Even if you don’t touch them, they will use up battery power. You can, however, see what applications are running in the background. In this guide, we will show how to see what apps or applications are running in the background in Windows 10.

In the meantime, many apps you download from the Microsoft Store can run in the background on Windows 10 to take advantage of extra features including data downloads, refreshing Live Tiles, and displaying notifications.

Although these features may be useful in a number of scenarios, apps running in the background (even when you haven’t started them) can drain the battery, waste bandwidth, and system resources. Luckily, if keeping apps up to date doesn’t matter to you, Windows 10 ships with settings to control which apps are allowed to run in the background.

How to See What Programs are Running in Windows 10 via Task Manager

If your computer becomes slow, reducing the number of programs you have open will help. This involves reducing the number of background processes that operate invisibly and often without your knowledge.

Ctrl + Alt + Delete” is a method that almost everybody has heard of. The user can open Windows Task Manager with this key combination. The Task Manager is a Windows utility that displays details such as running processes, device output, background services, and more. The tab we’ll be concentrating on is “Processes.” Running programs, background processes, and Windows processes will all be described in this section. When determining whether or not to terminate a procedure, an inexperienced user should proceed with caution.

  • Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete simultaneously to open Task Manager.
  • At the Process screen or tab, You’ll see a list of all the applications that are actually running on your desktop at the top of the table. These are normally programs that you began on your own. They should be familiar to you as software that you’re already using.
  • The following segment, “Background processes,” goes over programs that aren’t visible on your desktop. Other applications, such as self-update utilities, Windows components, and “suspended” Windows Store software, install these processes.

  • At the bottom of the list, you’ll find “Windows processes.” These are individual components of the Windows operating system. You won’t generally need to interact with any of these. They should be left on their own to keep your system running.

Check Background Running Apps via Privacy Settings

  • Press Windows key + I to open Settings. Alternatively, you can also right-click or left-click on the Start menu button and select the Gear or Setting option.
  • Select Privacy.

  • Click on Background apps. Under the “Choose which apps can run in the background” section, see which apps running in the background. You can also, turn off the toggle switch for the apps you want to restrict.

How to See What Apps are Running in the Background in Windows 10

  • Alternatively, under the “Background Apps” section, you can turn off the Let apps in the background toggle switch to prevent an app from running in the background toggle switch.

How to See What Apps are Running in the Background in Windows 10

Final Words

This is how you can see or check what apps are running in the background in Windows in 2 different ways (Privacy Settings and Task Manager. Note that Task Manager only shows apps running on your own desktop while the Privacy setting shows all Windows 10 apps.

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