Turn off Windows 10’s auto-installing of Games and Apps in the background

When you just finished the installation Windows 10 or create a new Account will have some games like Candy Crush Soda Saga, FarmVille 2, Flipboard, Twitter, Photoshop Express. self download and install. This feature is called Consumer Experience.

Out of those five apps, only Candy Crush Soda Saga came pre-installed. Other apps that you click on will link to the Windows Store of those apps. If you want to remove the application, you can right-click it and choose Unpin or Uninstall. However, the main problem is that these apps can reappear after the update. It is also possible that Microsoft may add other applications to the operating system in the future. You never play these games, and want to immediately turn off background download to save bandwidth and harden? Follow the steps below to Disable Windows 10 Game and App auto-installing in background.

This is the difference when you turn off game mode and background apps.

Use Group Policy Setting to turn off the feature of installing Game in the background

1. Press Windows + R to open the dialog box RUNtype command gpedit.msc and press Enter.
2. The Local Group Policy Editor window appears
3. You follow the path Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Cloud Content.
4. Select Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences.
5. Right click on it and select Edit.
6. Select Enable to turn off Consumer Experience, the feature of downloading apps in the background
7. Restart Windows to finish

Use Windows Registry Editor to turn off Consumer Experience

You can also disable Microsoft’s Consumer Experience feature in the Windows Registry.

1. Press Windows + R to open the dialog box RUNtype command regedit.exe and press Enter.
2. Go to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent (If you don’t see CloudContent, you right click Windows -> New -> Key to create)
3. Look at the right column to see the lock DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures. (If you don’t see it, you Right click on an empty space in the right column and select New -> DWORD to create)
4. Double click on the lock DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures change from 0 to 1
5. Restart Windows