A background download could be choking the bandwidth and not allowing enough for a smooth internet experience.

Go through each method to determine what is downloading so you’re able to pause/cancel it.

This also includes the internet bandwidth.

Check background downloads

fire up the Task Managerusing the CTRL + Shift + Esc shortcut keys.

The process/app on the top wall be consuming the highest web connection bandwidth out of all the processes.

Therefore, it is likely that the background download is also happening from the app.

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You have now identified the culprit for the background downloading.

Terminating a system-critical process could crash your gear.

This can be done through the configs app.

Startup folder in all versions of Windows

It may be possible that an update is downloading, causing other internet experiences to be slower.

You may have started downloading something from a website and then forgotten about it.

If so, the file would still be downloading in the background.

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