I'm the only one at home that uses Windows 10 so I don't have any other references for test purpose other than my dads Windows 8.1 system where AppXSVC does not get triggered in any of these scenarios. This is something I really do not understand. I can see it does get triggered in File Explorer, particularly when viewing the Videos folder. But what is triggering it to start is making me really confused.

Still I have yet to find out if it is really normal for this service to start by itself. I have just conducted this experiment by disabling AppXSVC manually using regedit by setting Start value to 4 and I do not experience those crashes that you are describing following the PC restart!Īre you sure that this service is really important for the other Windows internal features other than the deployment of the store apps? I don't use store apps and even if I do I can always re-enable manually. This made no difference whatsoever.Ĭan someone reassure me if this behaviour is normal? Is it meant to really start-up?Ĭlick to expand.

I just updated Windows 10 a couple of hours ago to the latest Windows 10 1903(OS build 18362.720) from Version 1903 (OS Build 18362.329) that I had 7 months ago.

The question is why and is it normal? Also when I go to File Explorer and then click on the Video, Pictures, etc folder then this service will start up! If this AppXSVC is associated with the Store app then why does this start when I click on videos folder for example when I already have VLC as the default player? If the videos and pictures have nothing to do with any of the store apps then I don't understand why AppXSVC triggers to run. So as you can see there is no data usage for my store apps. For the benefit of the doubt I have even updated all the Windows store apps successfully without issues. However, I have noticed AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) start up always when the PC starts up. The Store app is not running in the background. I also disabled the Store app and also tried enabling it as well. I have uninstalled and turned off live tiles as well as turning off background apps for all of the store apps. But I noticed that on my dads Windows 8.1 machine AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) will not startup during Windows boot, yet under Windows 10 this will always start even when set to Manual. I have not concentrated on this issue before. AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) runs at Startup.

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