<p dir="auto">I tried to update the PowerToys app today and during the process it asked me to close apps such as Office 365 Suite apps, Slack, Calculator and all my browsers + a lot more apps. There is no documentation I can find that explains the reasoning behind these requirements. And I don't see how the installation would benefit from closing all these other apps, apart from it being tedious and annoying.</p>
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<p dir="auto">It would be great if someone could shed light on these requirements and maybe explain why it has to be done every time the app is updated (which is quite frequently).</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="Windows build number: 10.0.19041.264
PowerToys version: v0.18.1
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug: auto update"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">Windows build number: 10.0.19041.264
PowerToys version: v0.18.1
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug: auto update
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">The update program requires to disable the Microsoft Store, Microsoft Text Input Application, Mail which are run at background. I can manually kill the process for Microsoft Store and Mail but Microsoft Text Input Application. However, I can just ignore this to continue. Just unsure does this effect anything.</p>
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