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#140622 15-Feb-2014 13:10

Having got Windows 8.1 running in 'desktop mode' permanently I have largely forgotten about the 'Start' screen (Metro). My question is, given that I am not using the Metro interface (as far as I know) is there anything significant that is costing me in performance and/or data use? For example should I uninstall apps and/or disable live tiles that I don't use?

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#987762 15-Feb-2014 14:04

I have uninstalled all Modern UI apps on my laptop, just to be sure there isn't any traffic going on.

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#987775 15-Feb-2014 14:29

You can easily uninstall most of them using powershell, run powershell as admin

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

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Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

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#987982 15-Feb-2014 20:28

Curious to know the things you like in Win8.1 instead of just running Win7

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#988017 15-Feb-2014 21:56

The laptop I bought (boxing day special) came with Win 8.0. I have upgraded it to 8.1 specifically to boot to the desktop. I would never choose to upgrade Win 7 to 8.

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#988024 15-Feb-2014 22:11

i would think (and I have) disabled all live tiles. not sure what else could parasite resources ...

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#988129 16-Feb-2014 10:21

Does metro run as a seperate process or is it bloated into explorer.exe?

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#988179 16-Feb-2014 12:43

WinRT is what you are referring to, it is just a bunch of COM objects. It means they are not running unless something calls them.

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#988182 16-Feb-2014 12:47

Does RT support Bitlocker too?

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