Thanks a lot, that System Explorer has let me finally set permanent affinity/priority on processes/executables. It does have a poor UI experience when it comes to wanting to deselect cores, lower...

That looks great, I'm definitely trying that when I get back home in a few days. I've read up on it and see no reason why I can't already mark this as solved.

I've googled but can't find any kind of driver/application that lets you choose the left-right balance of specific applications in Windows. For example, I might have two meetings going on and want...

Do you know where it can be found ? In windows folders or in the registry ? I'm perfectly happy to have a friendly popup appear. What I don't like is that it was stopping my youtube videos from...

Didn't Opera switch a couple of years back to using Chrome/Webkit as their base code and they wrap it in an Opera UI ? They might have inherited this functionality as a result of that. </speculation>

Thanks Helmut. That certainly sounds specific enough to be the actual solution. I've marked it solved despite not being able to test it because (a) I'm not doing any video conversions any more, and...

Is there a way to achieve permanent affinity for a program that is used without a shortcut? I use the WinFF program for video conversion, which is a UI wrapper around ffmpeg.exe that does the actual...

Thanks for the suggestion, I had checked that. This is Windows doing this. I don't think a chrome extension could know the CPU usage, and it's definitely (proven now) that it was only happening...

In the last hour (and never before that) I'm starting to see a floating control widget appear when I'm watching Youtube videos in chrome. In addition to that, the videos I'm watching randomly stop...

That's right !

That link was useful, it informed me that after doing a snip that seemed to disappear, rather than just disappearing, it was resulting in a notification in the systray. Looking in there I found the...

I've been a long-time user of the snipping tool and recently it started informing me that soon it will go away and it offers me a link to try snip & sketch.

When I follow that link inside the old...

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That worked (the simple right-click and deselect encrypt) on every folder that was encrypted except the desktop folder itself. It gives an error.

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I haven't turned on device...

I have file-encryption enabled (somehow) but when I look in these various policy/regedit fields, none of them are enabled. I assume I could create the keys or toggle the policies and set them to "No"...

Thanks for those replies, but those links are to how-to articles about how to decrypt the encrypted files, how to set a registry item to tell Windows to not encrypt files copied. None of them tell me...

I've been running this new Windows 10 PC for over a month, but somehow in the last day or two I've noticed that every new file I create on drive C has a gold lock icon on it. It doesn't seem to...

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How did I not see that? One display was set to 125% scaling and the other was set to 100% scaling. Now they're set the same and this behaviour immediately stopped...

That's what I assumed, but the laptop's native screen is/was claimed to be 1080p and the same applies to my monitor, and both report (in the desktop settings) to be at that resolution and I have a...

I recently retired a laptop that had it's own screen as 1920x1080 and had a second monitor plugged in that was set to 1920x1080 and when I dragged any application's window between screens, I would...