windows-8 - Can User turn off Background Task in Windows 8?

Question

In Windows Phone 7.5 there is a way to turn a backgroundagent by going to Settings->Applications->background tasks

Is there a similar thing in Windows 8 for me turn it off?

This is a programming question because I want to get an answer to this for me to use this following API in my application. If user turns it off then I need to go for 'Push notification' implementation on my server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh977056.aspx

Answer 1

如果您正在构建与锁定屏幕相关的后台任务，则可以禁用它们。查看设置 - 更改电脑设置 - 个性化

AFAIK，用户不能禁用其他后台任务，如背景音频、文件传输、维护等。不是后台任务专家，所以可能我错过了一些东西，但我很确定我做对了。