HRose
4821
As I already said my half gig spared was measured through fresh boots. Also no background programs running.
There was a registry trick to force hibernate (and not use the new suspend mode that wakes up for web page updates and the like)
It kinda sorta worked thought, and seemed to break each update. I struggled for years on a laptop. I have an XPS 13 that would stay awake if you had some webpages on.
It’s no joke. Immediate 1.5GB memory savings on my work PC post change. Fresh boots both times when recording before and after.
Mother of god. Wonder if they’re hiding a ton of telemetry or something behind that flag.
rei
4825
It used up 1GB more with it unchecked. I suspect it does nothing for me.
Mixed results. The biggest delta is my old i7-4770 box, which I use as a Plex server. It went from about 6GB (out of 16) to 2.9GB.
The more modern machines had a slight dip, but nothing as dramatic.
Soma
4827
I avoid hibernate and fast boot like the plague, because they have caused numerous problems, on my desktop (boot twice every time before getting into windows) and laptop (BSOD). Once I stop using hibernate and fast boot the problems go away.
I tried the metered internet setting. It sets a limit on total internet use, and it does not discriminate between e.g. browser that I need and background processes that I don’t need. Not a viable option to delay or pause background processes.
You should be able to set the cap as high as you like. It doesn’t matter what the cap is, having the cap should force Windows to request permission before downloading the files.
Soma
4829
But they are STILL running in the background, it is just that they are not using bandwidth. From a battery point of view it looks like they are still draining battery. (More processes => more power consumption).
Isn’t this part of what you wanted to be solved? The whole checking and downloading updates whenever it is on the internet?
Soma
4831
I want the background processes to NOT RUN at all to save battery.
Not sure, but I knocked about 1.3GB out of memory on my brand new PC by turning that stuff off tonight.
I don’t personally do this but it’s probably more what you’re after.
I’ve no idea what impact that has on the usability of the UI etc.
Don’t forget to turn these on and actually update every once in awhile.
In the past it wound also break the Store and the Xbox app. I don’t know if it’s better now.
Setting to a metered connection is the cleanest.
The worst part IMO is that Microsoft have become increasingly aggressive about installing memory hogging “services” that are really thinly-veiled money sinks in ADDITION to not being especially useful in the first place. Do i WANT start menu ads for pay-as-you-go solitaire? Or an always-on collaboration / video etc client? How about live weather and “news” tiles that are mostly full of click-bait from shitty web sites?
The list goes ON and ON and I just DON’T WANT ANY OF IT. Even Microsoft sort-of-gets that most of these junk apps are unloved design failures, because they come and often disappear in successive Windows 10 updates rather than being iterated / improved.
Luckily you CAN turn it off. But also the process for doing that becomes more convoluted as time goes on because there’s so much MORE of it.
Honestly I was FINE paying for Windows licenses every how ever many years rather than this freemium-forever crap.
/rant mode off
Diego
Daagar
4836
Bummer, here I was all excited to save RAM, and I already have that setting disabled. I didn’t do it myself, so pretty sure ShutUp 10 did it for me.
stusser
4837
I had it disabled too, because I go through every setting exhaustively anyway.
Man, I would love this if it let you only show the weather and if the weather updated in a timely manner. I was a big fan of the old widgets and bummed when they were phased out. But as you said it’s full of shitty clickbait and political hack websites masquerading as “news”.
Yeah. Widgets were great. I hated to see them go.
Windows 11 brings good news!
(Or so I hear)
