Windows 10: How do you disable Windows auto setting app priority for apps in the background to low

When you tab out of an application, it's priority viewed in task manager is set to low, making the app useless, and better off closed, but this can have severe consequences on apps that run in the background, like Discord, which will be unusable due to spikes in memory usage causing it to have too little memory to run, thus making using the voice chat feature nearly impossible, I want to disable this function, permanently, and if it can't be, want help installing an app to override Windows, and disable this counterproductive feature.I tried doing some online video tips, it did nothing, and l

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Apps running in Background

Hi JonBlann,

Windows 10 allows some apps to run in the background even if you never open it. This would let the applications to update itself or to get you notified with what's new with the app. However, this would consume most of your battery, bandwidth, and system
resources.

You can refer to the steps below on how to disable apps from running in the background:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Background apps.
   
2. Under Background apps, toggle off the Let apps run in the background switch to disable all apps that come from Microsoft Store. If you want to disable only a specific app, then you can toggle off the switch next to the
   app under Choose which app can run in the background.

Let us know how it goes and we'll assist you further if needed.

 

How to ACTUALLY stop apps from auto-starting in the background?

@UltimatePOPCORN, They don't appear to be background processes either. You cropped your screenshot a bit too much to tell for sure, but the only way I can reproduce a screenshot that looks like yours is to actually run the Apps...





...when (of course) they will need some memory. When closed, they don't appear in my Task Manager at all - either in the
Apps (..) or Background processes (...) lists. Do you have them set to run at start-up? Look in Task Manager's Start-up tab, if that turns out to be the case you can disable them there.

 

Background Apps Annoying


You can go to Settings App
search for background
click on let apps run in the background

Scroll through the list to see if they're listed there.