*I know there are many questions on Stackoverflow, for example, but I can't really seem to trust the answer for some reason. I must disable some Windows Task for what I need, but it looks like I might have problems with Visual Studio later, so to confirm that it is safe to do, I posted a question here. On Visual Studio Developer Community, it gets a bit confusing when someone is answering someone's/my question.

I am using Visual Studio 2022, installed it 3 months ago. The only workload I have there installed is .NET Desktop Development, because I am a C# programmer.

I like this IDE. Though, the only thing is, when the system itself is idle, the laptop's CPU fans start to get loud for a bit. If I look at the Task Manager in time, I can see BackgroundDownload.exe spawning and loading 100% of CPU and Disk, despite that my laptop has an SSD with a speed up to 500MB R/W, and a Ryzen 7 CPU, still uses 100% of system resources.

It is very annoying that I have to always put my laptop on sleep mode. Otherwise, BackgroundDownload.exe keeps starting and closing itself again, again, and again.

It also creates folders in %TEMP%. These folders occupy 40MB of Disk Space and get cleaned up to 72KB later, though sometimes the size of the user temp folder is insane due to directories Visual Studio creates for BackgroundDownload.exe. Their names is just a string with random characters, + a dot and 3 more random characters.

So my question is, how do I prevent BackgroundDownload.exe from running in the background again?