

Having apps run in the background of your system is helpful and good, as are Windows Updates - unless you really want to see if others have any issues with a major incoming Windows update before you install it, I suppose. You could, however, prevent Windows Update from downloading third-party hardware drivers, assuming that you keep up on this sort of thing yourself and get the latest drivers for your components directly from their manufacturers.Īs for the scary red “no” exclamation point, I’d leave those be. Similarly, turning off an app’s ability to access your location might sound good for privacy, up until the app starts serving you content in another language because it has no idea where you actually are. Just remember you toggled that setting the next time you’re about to hop on a video conference. You might not want to, for example, disable all apps from accessing your microphone or camera - or maybe you do. Once you start getting into the yellow “limited” category, however, it gets a bit dicier. Enable any related setting and you’re probably fine. While you probably shouldn’t just go through and enable everything that’s recommended en masse, I would use that little green checkmark as a guide while you explore the app.
