If I uncheck the "Let apps run in background" setting, will apps still automatically update without having to do it myself via the Microsoft Store app (I hardly ever use it)? I guess not.
Brother a suggestion you must turn off mostly privacy settings to not allow M$ collect your system details. but its your own decision whether to disable or let them enabled according to your needs .
So, I installed Windows 11 and it looks like the previously mentioned setting was a generic one in Windows 10 but apparently it's an individual one for each app in Windows 11. EDIT: There's a setting to disable all background apps in NTLite and Winaero Tweaker. What will happen if I check it? If the Microsoft Store app is responsible for updating apps, then I guess it shouldn't be able to do it and so I'd have to manually run it to update them and because of that I might as well not check this setting. If on Windows 11 background apps must be disabled one by one, then I don't get how can a setting that disables all apps exist in NTLite and Winaero Tweaker. EDIT 2: I checked the disable background apps setting in Winaero Tweaker and now the setting inside each app to disable itself no longer appears so I'll uncheck it and I'll stop checking the NTLite setting to disable background apps as well. Also, I manually ran Microsoft Store and it detected updates for itself.
Anyway, just to be sure, if I uncheck the "Let apps run in background" setting on Winaero Tweaker, will apps still automatically update without having to do it myself via the Microsoft Store app (I hardly ever use it)?
Why dont you just try? The apps wont run in background but they can probably auto update if MS Store is allowed to run and auto update
@Windows 10 User I don't know what this so-called Winaero Tweaker does, that is, what it actually disables or enables, I don't know. But if you allow some apps or program to run in the background, it means that when you close them (for example, when you click on the cross in the right corner), only the so-called user screen/panel will closed but the program itself doesn't close and it still runs, only you or what ever user don't see it. And it has nothing to do with updating any program. In short - any program updates are not prevented by disabling background processes. However, it is known that if you disable all background processes, Windows Spotlight will no longer work and you will no longer get Lock Screen images automatically.
Thanks. I thought they'd stop being updated if I disabled them. I find it odd Windows 11 has a setting to disable each background app and not all of them unlike Windows 10. Also, what do these apps do in the background, then?
Is not rocket science to understand what the great utility Winaero Tweaker does. Every setting is explained and linked to a webpage where is explained how to get the same result manually. Just read before write, as usual.
For me it is. I already did and that still doesn't answer my question regarding why can one disable all background apps on Windows 10 via the Settings app and not in Windows 11.
My reply wasn't aimed to you. I just use Server 11 that has a lot less cruft than its client cousin. That said I don't understand the point of a question, any windows does what MS decided it should do, knowing why they decide to restrict something doesn't change anything. Do you want a list of things I can do in Android 3 and I can't do in android 12? It likely requires a couple of pages...
I didn't disable background apps (even though it was stated here it doesn't make a difference regarding the app update process) and after running the Microsoft Store app and searching for updates, it often detects updates for the other apps and itself. The same thing goes for Microsoft 365 even though it's not an UWP app. Shouldn't they automatically update themselves?