Is there a general consensus about what wouldn't work without WebView2, WebExperience or StartExperiencesApp?

[InnerBrat]

Hi!

I'm being careful lately because you never know with Microsoft.
I mean, it took me MANY hours of checking back in GPEdit and Services to see wtf did I do to make the login to Microsoft Account in Store stop working, and then many clean installs with MSMG Toolkit, until I've found that removing Hello with MSMG had that effect.
And I have this feeling that things like WebView2, WebExperience and StartExperiencesApp also have hidden ramifications beyond Widgets & Co.
I don't care about widgets (who does, seriously?), web results in Search, News, Feeds, etc.
But if some integrated function or some App (MS or 3rd party) needs any of that for other things, I might want to keep them.

Thanks

 

[TheChester]

WebView2 is a sandboxed Edge browser. Microsoft is using it in windows for some stuff like the widgets app, steam uses it, autodesk fusion uses it for their login screen. I had it disabled for a while and had some work arounds, somebody made a NoWebView2 steam fix.. Any service that has "Experience" or "Host" in it's name is pretty integrated in the system, it's how they're integrating web based stuff(ads) into things like the start menu. I was able to disable most the "Host" services by replacing the start menu with Start11, two important ones are TextInputHost and ShellExperienceHost. I couldn't disable those without breaking to much. MS is turning Windows in to times square, jamming ad's every where they can. Then even if you don't want to use their shitty browser your still using their browser. Unfortunately if you want to use the Windows Store and login with an email account you're pretty limited in how much you can cut out.