📊 VBA (Excel)

Apply Disable Background Apps Globally (VBA)

Prevents Store apps from running in the background to save resources and battery. Applied via WScript.Shell.RegWrite from VBA.

By WindowsScripting.com · 464 B
DisableBackgroundAppsRegSet.bas
Attribute VB_Name = "DisableBackgroundAppsRegSet"
Option Explicit

Public Sub DisableBackgroundAppsRegSet()
    Dim wsh As Object
    Dim regPath As String

    Set wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    regPath = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\BackgroundAccessApplications\GlobalUserDisabled"

    wsh.RegWrite regPath, 1, "REG_DWORD"

    MsgBox "Disable Background Apps Globally applied." & vbCrLf & regPath, vbInformation
End Sub