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Disabling the “Disable apps to improve performance” reminder in Windows 10

Posted on April 30, 2016August 24, 2017 by Jörgen Nilsson

In Windows 10 by default a reminder is displayed to the end-user in the Notification area if there are three apps or more that launch automatically when you login. At least I think this is very annoying and it causes end-users to call the servicedesk and ask how they can disable the applications to improve performance. This is not a wanted scenario!

DisableApps_1

This notification is triggered by a Schedule Task called “StartupAppTask” that resides under Microsoft, Windows and Application Experience in the Task Scheduler. So to stop it we simply disable that Task and then the reminders go away! 😀

DisableApps_2How do we do this during OSD you might ask?

Well we run a simple Powershell script when we are on the full Operating System in the Task Sequence like the example below shows, then the task is disabled and never run at all for the end-users.

Powershell command:

powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -Command "&{ Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskName '\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\StartupAppTask'}"

DisableApps_3

You can disable this task in many ways, I prefer to do it this way then I know that it is always disabled.

I hope this is useful to more than me!

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  • 5 thoughts on “Disabling the “Disable apps to improve performance” reminder in Windows 10”

    1. Tobi says:
      April 30, 2016 at 1:51 pm

      Thanks for the tip it’s very useful. Do you know if this tweak is still active after a feature upgrade of Windows 10? If not I think it would be better to disable it via group policies if possible. Do you have an idea how to do this?

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      1. Jörgen Nilsson says:
        May 1, 2016 at 10:50 pm

        Hi,
        You mean from 1507-1511 for instance? I will try that out first thing in the morning. I can add to the blog post on how to do it with GPO’s as well.
        /Jörgen

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    2. Tobi says:
      May 2, 2016 at 8:48 am

      Yes exactly. There are several things that get reenabled after a feature upgrade so I just wanted to make sure if the task stays deactivated. If not the group policy would be the better way to disable it because OSD only takes place on the first installation.

      I know how to create a startup script via group policy. I’m just curious if there is a way to do it via “Preferences”, “Control Panel Settings”, “Scheduled Tasks” or not.

      Thanks for you help!

      Reply
    3. TribleTrouble says:
      May 3, 2016 at 3:13 pm

      Maybe do a compliance rule or deploy an application that does what your script does with SCCM.

      It looks like disabling a scheduled task in group policy is not possible, and the associated registry keys are not looking like they would be helpful:

      Looking at it in process monitor it looks like the Registry value HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\StartupNotify\EnableStartupAppNotification is first set to 0 and then to 1 every time the scheduled task runs. Not sure it can be set to anything useful though.

      Also there is HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and Maintenance\Checks\{D26DE5C1-C061-43F7-9C40-7517526CF1C1}.check.0\CheckSetting

      There is the question if {D26DE5C1-C061-43F7-9C40-7517526CF1C1} is unique for every computer though or could potentially change in the future. Setting it using group policy is doable, but its an obscure binary value so I wouldn’t touch it.

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    4. G3orge says:
      December 27, 2017 at 1:29 pm

      Thank you for this. I struggled with a reminder popup since October. I wish you a Happy New Year!

      Reply

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