Here’s a tip from my colleague Ed Wilson (the Microsoft Scripting Guy) about how to to find Windows 8.1 Start apps using Windows PowerShell.
Question: You want to find a listing of your Windows 8.1 start apps. How can you do this with Windows PowerShell 4.0?
Answer: Use the Get-StartApps cmdlet. It appears here:
PS C:\> Get-StartApps
Mitch Tulloch is a nine-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows administration, deployment and virtualization. For more information see http://www.mtit.com.
Ed Wilson is the bestselling author of eight books about Windows Scripting, including Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step, and Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps. He writes a daily blog about Windows PowerShell call Hey, Scripting Guy! that is hosted on the Microsoft TechNet Script Center; for more PowerTips check out the Hey, Scripting Guy! blog.
I wonder if Get-StartApps differentiates between apps turned on / off from System -> Privacy -> Background Apps? It appears not.
I turned off several Background Apps (Your Phone, Edge, etc), restarted my computer, re-ran Get-StartApps and the list of apps is exactly the same as the one I ran before turning the apps off in Background Apps!!
Can you explain what I might be missing?
Suggest you ask over on https://powershell.org/forums/