Out of the box, some Universal apps are already enabled to run in the background in Windows You may have never opened those apps, not even once and may not need them, but they are running anyway. Alarms and Clock, Photos, Store and some other apps are set to work in the background. The Alarms and Clock app for example is able to show you an alarm notification if you have set one when it is running.
In Windows 10, there is a special section in the Settings app which allows you to manage which apps can run in the background. There, it is possible to prevent some apps from running constantly. However, this doesn't work as expected in Windows 10 versions and For some reason, the OS keeps turning on the background apps automatically after restart or shutdown of computer.
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Specifies the maximum foreground download bandwidth that Delivery Optimization uses across all concurrent download activities as a percentage of available download bandwidth. The default value 0 zero means that Delivery Optimization dynamically adjusts to use the available bandwidth for foreground downloads. Set this policy to restrict peer selection via selected option.
Specifies the maximum background download bandwidth that Delivery Optimization uses during and outside business hours across all concurrent download activities as a percentage of available download bandwidth. Specifies the maximum foreground download bandwidth that Delivery Optimization uses during and outside business hours across all concurrent download activities as a percentage of available download bandwidth.
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Note — the official image contains both Windows 10 Home and Professional versions. You will get the option to select the edition when installing the OS. In the case of VDI, you might want the ability to customize the default user profile which would be used as the profile template for subsequent users that log on using this image.
You might have apps that you want installed, but also able to control per-app settings. The alternative is to use a standard. ISO to install from, possibly using an unattended installation answer file, and a task sequence to install applications or remove applications. Tuning Windows 10 network performance by using registry settings. Disk cleanup. One of the goals of a VDI image is to be as small as possible.
One way to reduce the size of the image is to remove UWP applications that will not be used in the environment. With UWP apps, there are the main application files, also known as the payload. There is a small amount of data stored in each user's profile for application specific settings.
There is also a small amount of data in the All Users profile. Connectivity and timing are everything when it comes to UWP app cleanup.
If you deploy your base image to either a device with no network connectivity, Windows 10 cannot connect to the Microsoft Store and download apps and try to install them while you are trying to uninstall them. If you modify your base. WIM before you install, the apps will not be installed to begin with and your profile creation times should be shorter. Later in this section, you'll find information on how to remove UWP apps from your installation.
WIM file. A good strategy for VDI is to provision the apps you want in the base image, then limit or block access to the Microsoft Store afterward. Store apps are updated periodically in the background on normal computers. The UWP apps can be updated during the maintenance window when other updates are applied. UWP apps that are not needed are still in the file system consuming a small amount of disk space. For apps that will never be needed, the payload of unwanted UWP apps can be removed from the base image using PowerShell commands.
In fact, if you remove those from the installation. WIM file using the links provided later in this section, you should be able to start from the beginning with a very slim list of UWP apps. Run the following command to enumerate provisioned UWP apps from a running Windows 10 operating system, as in this truncated example output from PowerShell:.
UWP apps that are provisioned to a system can be removed during operating system installation as part of a task sequence, or later after the operating system is installed.
This might be the preferred method because it makes the overall process of creating or maintaining an image modular. Once you develop the scripts, if something changes in a subsequent build you edit an existing script rather than repeat the process from scratch.
Here are some links to information on this topic:. Removing Windows 10 in-box apps during a task sequence. Windows 10 Keeping apps from coming back when deploying the feature update.
Each UWP app should be evaluated for applicability in each unique environment. You will want to install a default installation of Windows 10, version , then note which apps are running and consuming memory. For example, you might want to consider removing apps that start automatically, or apps that automatically display information on the Start menu, such as Weather and News, and that might not be of use in your environment.
One of the "inbox" UWP apps called Photos, has a default setting called Show a notification when new albums are available. The Photos app can use approximately MB of memory; specifically private working set memory, even if not being used.
Changing the Show a notification when new albums are available setting for all users is not practical at this time, hence the recommendation to remove the Photos app if it is not needed or desired.
For more about this, see the Windows a PowerShell forum. You can use the built-in Dism. You can set up a Dism. The settings listed here can be applied locally to the base image. Then if the equivalent settings are not specified in any other way such as by group policy, the settings would still apply. The following settings specifically do not counter or conflict with any setting that has anything to do with security. These settings were chosen to remove settings that might not be applicable to VDI environments.
In this table of group policy settings, items marked with an asterisk are from the Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline. The group policy settings above include settings to turn off checking to see if the system is connected to the Internet. If your environment does not connect to the Internet at all, or connects indirectly, you can set a group policy setting to remove the Network icon from the Taskbar. The reason you might want to remove the Network icon from the Taskbar is if you turn off Internet connectivity checks, there will be a yellow flag on the Network icon, even though the network might be functioning normally.
If you would like to remove the network icon as a group policy setting, you can find that in this location:. If you are considering disabling system services to conserve resources, take great care that the service being considered is not in some way a component of some other service. Also, most of these recommendations mirror recommendations for Windows Server with Desktop Experience; for more information, see Guidance on disabling system services in Windows Server with Desktop Experience.
Note that a lot of services that might seem to be good candidates to disable are set to manual service start type. This means that the service will not automatically start and is not started unless a specific application or service triggers a request to the service being consider for disabling. Services that are already set to start type manual are usually not listed here.
Per-user services are services that are created when a user signs into Windows or Windows Server and are stopped and deleted when that user signs out. These services run in the security context of the user account - this provides better resource management than the previous approach of running these kinds of services in Explorer, associated with a preconfigured account, or as tasks.
The following list of tasks are those that perform optimizations or data collections on computers that maintain their state across reboots. When a VDI VM task reboots and discards all changes since last boot, optimizations intended for physical computers are not helpful. You can get all of the current scheduled tasks, including descriptions, with the following PowerShell code:.
Whether from Microsoft Update, or from your internal resources, apply available updates including Windows Defender signatures.
This is a good time to apply other available updates including those for Microsoft Office if installed.
Windows is configured, by default, to collect and save limited diagnostic data. The purpose is to enable diagnostics, or to record data in the event that further troubleshooting is necessary. Others, such as the WiFiSession trace can be stopped. To stop a running trace under Event Trace Sessions right-click the trace and then select Stop. To prevent the traces from starting automatically on startup, follow these steps:.
At some point during the image optimization process available Windows updates should be applied. You can set Windows Update to install updates for other Microsoft products as well as Windows. This would be a good setting in case you are going to install Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Office to the base image. That way Office is up to date when the image is put in service.
There are also. One very important consideration for non-persistent VDI VMs are security updates, including security software definition files. These updates might be released once or even more than once per day. There might be a way to retain these updates, including Windows Defender and non-Microsoft components.
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