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Microsoft earlier today announced that it is bringing a major performance boost to Server 2025 systems with a new native feature that will immensely boost storage and related speeds by up to 80%. Microsoft today also confirmed that it is now going to be enabling a Windows system service by default, and quite ironically, the service is known to cause performance-related issues on user PCs from time to time as it can eat up CPU cycles and memory blocks. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for the month of December 2025 last week under KB5072033 for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2, and Server 2025 and today Neowin noticed that the tech giant updated the release notes for the C.U. (cumulative update) to include this system process change. It writes:
"December 15, 2025 Update: This feature is included in the December 2025 non-security update (KB5072033). [System Components] The AppX Deployment Service (Appxsvc) has moved to Automatic startup type to improve reliability in some isolated scenarios."
A quick Google search for the Appxsvc service leads to various forum posts and results online where users are seen complaining about this system process. This ranges from issues related to high CPU usage, memory usage, or disk impacts. Hence, the process could be a major potential resource and performance hog depending on how it could affect a user's PC. By default the Startup type for the service was previously set to "Manual(Triggered)" so that it could be launched on demand when a Store app needed to be accessed; but now Microsoft is making it "Automatic", which means low-spec and less powerful PCs running the newer versions of Windows 11 could be in for a bad surprise as the process will continue running in the background as soon as the system boots up.
For those wondering what the Appxsvc service is, the process essentially handles Microsoft Store apps and updates and if it is force-disabled, Microsoft warns that this could fail to function properly. If we were to guess why Microsoft is making the change, the company recently revealed that it is soon going to be pushing Microsoft Store updates via the Windows Update channel, and hence all Store-related changes may always be kept on by default.
"December 15, 2025 Update: This feature is included in the December 2025 non-security update (KB5072033). [System Components] The AppX Deployment Service (Appxsvc) has moved to Automatic startup type to improve reliability in some isolated scenarios."
A quick Google search for the Appxsvc service leads to various forum posts and results online where users are seen complaining about this system process. This ranges from issues related to high CPU usage, memory usage, or disk impacts. Hence, the process could be a major potential resource and performance hog depending on how it could affect a user's PC. By default the Startup type for the service was previously set to "Manual(Triggered)" so that it could be launched on demand when a Store app needed to be accessed; but now Microsoft is making it "Automatic", which means low-spec and less powerful PCs running the newer versions of Windows 11 could be in for a bad surprise as the process will continue running in the background as soon as the system boots up.
For those wondering what the Appxsvc service is, the process essentially handles Microsoft Store apps and updates and if it is force-disabled, Microsoft warns that this could fail to function properly. If we were to guess why Microsoft is making the change, the company recently revealed that it is soon going to be pushing Microsoft Store updates via the Windows Update channel, and hence all Store-related changes may always be kept on by default.