Cortana background process

[prateekj1993]

So, I disabled Cortana's background process to disable the flipping live tile which displayed the news (which was irrelevant to me as it is not of my region).
I wanted to know if disabling the background process will affect any other functionality of Cortana?

 

[Etyrnus]

I have the background agent disabled, and the only thing I think it does aside from the news on the tile is it takes another second or two to start the app

 

[vipin_thegame]

I was wondering about this too.
Battery sense app seems to show that Cortana uses very less battery when running in the background.

Any battery improvements for you guys after disabling?

 

[SpaceyO]

So, I disabled Cortana's background process to disable the flipping live tile which displayed the news (which was irrelevant to me as it is not of my region).
I wanted to know if disabling the background process will affect any other functionality of Cortana?

Reminders, location services aren't affected?

 

[prateekj1993]

As it turns out, the tile did not stop flipping even after disabling the background process and since it was consuming very little battery in the background, I enabled it again. But, I don't think location or reminders were affected.