How To Reduce Data Consumption In Windows 10

In my journey to explore Windows 10 today I am going to telll you how can you reduce your internet data consumption in Windows 10. This is very useful when you are connected to limited data connection or your broadband plan is limited. Not only this in paid WiFi connection you just get a limited data so for these scenario best is try to reduce data consumtion as much as possible. Hope you know that microsoft started introducing app from Windows 8, and some of these apps run in background. As a result it consume data. In Windows 10 Microsoft introduced a nice feature by which you can reduce data consumption. This feature is Metered Connection.

Metered Connection is a new feature in Windows 10 that helps you consume low data when you are connected to limited data internet connection. As soon as you enable this feature, it will start consuming low data. So how to enable Metered Connection in Windows 10?

How To Reduce Data Consumption In Windows 10

Step 1: Go to your system tray and click on network connections. You Will see like this

Step 2:  Now right click on which you are connected.

Step 3: Then click on Go to settings

Step 4: Click on Advaced Option

Step 5: Turn on the Metered Connection

Now you have enabled metered connection on your Windows 10 to reduce data consumption. So if you have a limited data plan, then go and enabled it, you can also reduce some data consumption by disabling Windows Update.