I installed AppControl on my Windows 11 PC and was shocked by how much was happening in the background without me knowing.

To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.

For all the things Windows 11 genuinely does right (the list is getting shorter every day), it also manages to do a lot of things wrong — quietly, constantly, and entirely under the hood. A modern ...