Steerpike

2010, 2012, 2013 are also new. This might be helpful. It scans clean...

Confirmed - I ran for a day+ with the setting above ("let this system component run in background") set to 'Never', and there were NO...

Well that's interesting - I decided to go to settings / system / system components / (phone link entry - ... - more options) / advanced...

2 days ago, I killed off (right click / end task) the 80+ instances of BackgroundTaskHost.exe. Today, 2 days later, I have 29 new...

I now have 81 'background task host' entries in task manager - its slowly but surely growing. My guess is, some action I'm taking is...

Interesting. I don't use the MS Store for anything, and I avoid Cortana and Copilot/etc. I do use MS Office products extensively...

What are we disabling here, with the registry edit? Looks like we are disabling the startup of a service 'WpnUserService'. This appears...

Glad it could help. :shawn: I use Screenpresso to edit them.

Thanks for the pointer. Would a 'restart' be the same as a 'shutdown' in this context? I never, ever shutdown but I do restart from...

Wow - that seems messed up! I presume you've rebooted, etc (I never reboot these days so I have to explicitly think about it!). So...

The tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the "Let's finish setting up your device" screen for your account in Windows 11...

Thanks so much for this tutorial - that 'nag' has been driving me crazy and I had no idea if could be stopped! FYI, a key step for...

I just happened to glance at the task manager, and noticed over 30 'Background Task Host' entries under 'Background Processes'. They are...

To clarify - you say "ALT-TAB does not show me a list on the screen of all my open windows, allowing me to cycle to the one I need, now...

Is there some filtering going on that I'm not aware of? This is what I'm seeing in 'Settings > Apps > installed Apps': No 'Phone...