Thanks Ryan, but unfortunately this checkbox isn't available for the Android OS element. Cutter It's not available when you press the settings button while you're on that page? Look at 1qaz. Show 3 more comments.
Tim Scarborough Tim Scarborough 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. I've just installed it. I hope it will give me the details about what Android OS is doing. Utku Utku 5 5 bronze badges.
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Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. While switching from one app to another on an android device, we leave more running apps in the background. Experts never suggest forcibly closing background apps on an android device because this will consume more battery and resources than those background apps running on your device.
Still, people prefer forcibly shutting down of the android apps running in the background. Read More: - An Android app not working — what to do next? Keep your device updated Always give your android the latest version update since it has great power management features that put limitations on background apps and boost the battery life of the device.
See what is sipping your battery power If smartphone comes with good battery life, people go crazy. Talk to our experts about your mobile app requirements Contact us and know more about how our experts can help your business grow. Let's Talk. I also have Norton which never really tells me when its downloading definitions or other program updates. Sometimes a big download is from someone who has sent me a large video file without asking or by mistake.
I get concerned when I see such activity and I want to protect my computer. Become a Patron of Ask Leo! Remember, websites are those things that you visit in your browser. So askleo. Those are places that you go to using a browser such as IE, Firefox or Chrome. What that means is that any program on your computer, including the browsers that I just talked about, could in fact be downloading an update.
It may also happen to be a web server, and have some websites on it, but these kind of downloads are often coming from locations that actually have nothing to do with websites, depending on the program and the specifics. Some programs- like your anti-malware tools- also update periodically. They just go ahead and do it. And of course, your email program could be checking for and downloading email. But we also need to talk briefly about malware. The problem here, of course, is that malware can do anything.
So if you have an infection of some sort, your computer could be downloading or uploading all sorts of things. It could even be sending email; a classic example of one of the ways that botnets are used. This article talks about using a Windows 7 utility called Perfmon to see which programs are accessing the network. It actually does a pretty nice job of showing you which programs are connected to something out on the internet; which ones are downloading lots of data, and which ones are not.
This can possibly at least give you a clue. Sometimes, unfortunately, the clue is very obscure. For example, sometimes Perfmon will show that the process called svchost is the one doing the download.
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