Microsoft store version bad performance on Windows 10

[Herbmeiser]

Just a note if someone else has the same issue. So I tried to install Spotify from Microsoft Store but it lagged very hard on the home screen, scrolling just throttled my cpu and overall experience is very slow and unresponsive to use.

After that I downloaded it directly from Spotify.com and it's completely smooth.. The executable is different on the two versions as well. A bit weird so I would like to know what is the cause for that or has anyone had the same issue? I tried the same with Discord and it worked fine through both ways. For some reason Spotify is so much worse performance when downloaded from MS Store.

[e-clect-eddy]

Spotify is slow since the last 2 updates for the desktop app on W10. It's as if the hardware acceleration is no longer working. If tried troubleshooting this with online suggestions but nothing made any difference. Spotify is just behaving very odd, MS Store starts (as a background process) whenever I start Spotify. Plus every few hours it auto-starts SpotifyWidgetProvider.exe which is not supported by Microsoft on W10, and I can't shut it off. I've tried every setting and it should not auto-start but it does.