If you don’t want an app to use any of the features listed, you can choose not to install it. To see the permissions for an app, go to the app product page in Microsoft Store or online. For more information, check out How to Sign In to Windows With a Non-Microsoft Account. Windows Desktop apps fall under this category. Microsoft Store apps require that you sign in to Windows 10 using a Microsoft Account, which forces you to connect to the cloud and increases the risk of exposure to your personal data. The biggest reason that I don’t use Microsoft Store apps on a Windows 10 computer has to do with privacy and security issues and not the quality or usefulness of the apps.

The use of store apps that may be infected with dangerous malware risk identity theft.

It’s not always clear what the app developer might do with your personal data that is collected when you use the app.

These malicious items may also have corrupted or deleted some entries in the registry as well as your system files.

The permissions that are listed by the developer may not be the actual permissions required by the app (as explained in Why Can Apps Be So Dangerous?). The ‘You need permission to perform this action’ could be caused by some malware that has hijacked your computer and taken control of its files and processes.

Step 3: To change the permissions, right-click on the folder you want to open (for us, it’s the Recovery folder here), and select Properties from the context menu.

The apps can update the permissions in the future because you agree to future updates and changes at the time of installation. Step 2: Here we want to open the Recovery folder in the C drive, but, it denies access to the folder.

You don’t exactly know what permissions you have given to each app and whether it really needs those permissions.

They require a lot of permissions and access to your personal data.

All downloaded store apps from Apple, Google, and Microsoft have similar security risks.

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