But how bad could it be? Screenshots that have been posted at the Out of Office Hours blog, show that the processes related to these features take up a couple of hundred megabytes of memory. Naturally, with such overhead, there is some usage which affects the system's performance. The Widgets and Chats apps open these instances as soon as you sign in to the OS, without any input from the user. Speaking of which, the Edge Bar panel also relies on the same technology. WebView2 is essentially the company's alternative of Electron, both of which are built from the Chromium source.
As the name indicates, these are related to Microsoft Edge. The report, spotted by ArsTechnica, mentions that the two apps create multiple instances called msedgewebview2.exe. The findings of Developer/IT Admin, Michael Niehaus, reveal that the Chat and Widgets app rely on processes running in the background. Disabling the Chat and Widgets icons in Windows 11 saves system resourcesĭo these applications have a negative impact on the computer's performance? It appears so. We have shown you how to remove the Chat and Widgets buttons. The latter has been criticized as an unwanted variant of the Teams app, since it is a watered-down version of the original program.īoth apps are enabled by default in the new operating system, as part of the core experience. There has been a lot of debate about the usefulness of the stock apps in Windows 11, specifically the Widgets and Chat apps.
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