Turn Off Automatic Downloading of Games and Apps on Windows

This guide provides a clear, practical overview of turn off automatic downloading of games and apps on Windows, with useful context, important details, and straightforward takeaways for everyday readers.

But what is too much is not good, installing too many applications and games on the computer without using it also affects significantly the performance of the Windows system.

And in this article, I will guide you through the most thorough tricks to turn off the automatic loading of games and applications on Windows 10, increase the performance of the computer system and avoid more junk.

1. Uninstall apps and games that are installed by default on Windows 10

As you can see, when you open the Start menu of Windows 10, there will be a lot of software as well as games and applications that are automatically downloaded and installed from the Microsoft Store.

A bunch of apps that we never use, such as Paint3D, Mixed Reality Portal and games like Candy Crush Saga, Microsoft Solitaire Collection .

Simply because we have so many better outside options!

So these applications often prove to be quite useless, and whether we keep it, leaving it only costs more storage space on the device, but does not solve anything. So the first thing that we should do is to remove it first to relieve eye irritation.

Perform:

You open Windows Settings using the key combination Windows + I => select Apps => in the App & Features section, go to the applications or games that are not in use, then remove it.

Note: Right-click on the application you want to remove => then select Uninstall is finished!

2. How to turn off automatic downloading of games and applications on Win 10

Okay, now let's turn off automatic loading of games and apps like this.

Perform:

+ Step 1: Open the Run dialog box (Windows + R) => and enter the command gpedit.msc => then ENTER to open the Group Policy Editor tool.

+ Step 2: In the new Group Policy Editor window that appears, navigate to the Cloud Content folder through the path by a tree on the left side of the window:

Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Cloud Content 

+ Step 3: Next, click on Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences => and click on Edit policy settings to start the setup.

+ Step 4: You select Enabled to enable this feature => then click the OK button, now you can close this Group Policy Editor window.

+ Step 5: Finally, restart Windows 10 for the setting to take effect.

Another way that I think I can block the automatic download feature of games and apps on Windows 10 is to turn off Windows Updates.

Since these applications are all downloaded from the Microsoft Store, when we turn off Windows Update, we cannot download anything from here. That's my guess, because I haven't tried it yet so I'm not sure it will, you can try it and leave a comment below!

But consider whether to turn off Update or not, you can read through this article: Should I turn off Windows 10 Update? Discuss now .

3. Conclusion

So I have finished showing you how to turn off automatic downloading of games and applications on Windows 10 already.

This is a small trick, but I think it is quite useful for those of you who own a computer with not really powerful configuration, or computers with hard drives with expensive capacity (because I know Many of you use only 120GB SSD as the operating system)….

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