
To simplify the life with potentially hundreds of installed apps, PC App Store incorporates a fully featured Uninstaller tool that will automatically handle the removal of all of its apps. With UI intended to be used by everyone from complete novices to seasoned PC technicians, Baidu PC App Store represents an excellent way to populate and maintain your suite of Windows applications. Microsoft again disabled the ability to unpin Microsoft Store from Start., but you can right-click and Unpin from Start to hide the Microsoft Store from the Start Menu Tiles.PC App Store is a free online application created by the online giant Baidu to help users from all around the world to easily, quickly and without any hassle discover, download, and keep up-to-date applications on their Windows OS. Reboot your computer and try the Store by clicking on Start > Microsoft Store. Right-click on Additional Rules and click on New Path Rule.Ĭopy and paste %programfiles%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsStore* under Path. Right-click on Software Restriction Policies and click on New Software Restriction Policies. Press the Windows Key + R, type in secpol.msc and press Enter.

Windows 10 Professional users have the Local Security policy, but everyone else, including Windows 10 Home users will need to enable the Local Security Policy. We need to use Local Security Policy (secpol.msc). When someone tries to open the Store, this is what they'll see: Anyone who wants to stop other users from opening the Windows Store will find this an acceptable alternative. Our other option is to block access to the Windows Store. Scroll down on the left and click on Background apps.Īs we mentioned earlier, while you're here, uncheck any other background apps you rarely, or never use.

Two birds and all of that.Ĭlick on Start > Settings > Privacy.

We doubt you'll notice an increase in speed, but preventing apps you don't use from running in the background can add up to a faster computer. That said, we have a couple of other options for you.Ģ: Disable Windows Store From Running in the Background It's not worth your time to disable the Windows Store. In our case, we never use it, we never see it and the one time we need it, it's there.

Now, bear with us, we know this isn't what you came to hear. TIP: Hard to fix Windows Problems? Repair/Restore Missing Windows OS Files Damaged by Malware with a few clicks
