Services and or drivers at startup could be a problem. Or explorer.exe itself. You can try these for explorer:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Serialize]...

Try updating Realtek to "Microsoft HD Audio driver 19-10-2023" (forced) and then for test disable all Enhancements for the speakers
I had popping using "Loudness equalization" enhancement

Also...

Hi Brink, just found this little gem. You may want to add set devmgr_show_drivers=1 too? It shows 2 more options in the View menu of device manager:
Devices by driver, Drivers by type

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Very interesting work. I have been running 3 for a long time. Switching to 5 looks to give a smoother experience.
I will keep you updated. Gonna try 5 on multiple PC's.

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Thanks for your work!

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Ran into this too today. This worked:

For /f %P in ('dism /online /get-drivers /format:table^|Findstr xtu') do pnputil.exe /d %P /u /f

Reboot needed.

Cleanup Device Manager (devices non present/greyed entries)

Rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\pnpclean.dll,RunDLL_PnpClean /DEVICES /DRIVERS /FILES [/MAXCLEAN]

Without /MAXCLEAN it is always...

0xffffffff works fine too.
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Thanks for the feedback.

I only noticed that my new (former S0) laptop, now in S3, gets BSOD when trying to sleep. So I disabled Sleep completely and shutdown now. Must be a BIOS thingy but I...

Bought a new laptop and noticed that only the Balanced power profile was showing with Powercfg.exe /L
After doing some investigation with another Windows 10 laptop I noticed that the new laptop had...

Only if you have Console V2 enabled. Legacy (V1) doesn't support.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
"ForceV2"=dword:00000001 ; 0 V1/Legacy style but UseDx works...

If you run M.2 ssd disable sysmain service. No need for that overhead. Superfetch, readyboost, readyboot and memory compression cost more than it yields. All techniques from the past when Windows had...

So:CacheAwareScheduling has values 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (3 bit flags non documented)
MaxDynamicTickDuration 1000 basicaly disables DynamicTick, since Min value (non registry) is the same...

I have strange (but common I read) power throttling issue on only the "system interrupts". In windows task manager
you must add the "power throttle" column in Details Tab.

Now all processes have...

Hi Forum,

Is there a reg option for forcing Private for new networks on 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x networks? Now it always defaults to Public. I want that to know what process decides that and can it...

Old post but some additional info. These values give perfect performance:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel]
"CacheAwareScheduling"=dword:00000002 ;...

Hi Forum,

A healthy 2022!

I was browsing through the Win10 kernel looking for more RAM control (battle memory leaks) on my limited Win10 machine. Maybe I have found the golden switch. I run it...

If you cannot do it by windows device manager for this USB disk (option greyed out) changing the registry will not make any difference I guess.

Finally solved this annoying problem forever without a windows reinstall.

KB4052623 is the complete Windows Defender program package. It is now 2021 and I still had a 2019 version that didn't...

Just in case someone wants it. Add an extra folder to this registry path:

@ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Temporary Files

"FileList"="*.*"...

Yes. Check last post in this thread.
Create Custom Power Plan in Windows 10

Thanks for the feedback. Maybe a dutch thing? :party:

Extra info: It is on a HP laptop and Power Scheme is Balanced. Maybe something with HP software that is installed.

Edit: somehow it is...

Hi board,

Version 1909 and last patches (Dutch MUI).

Looking at the Power Settings and the Power button actions I found a difference in the Windows GUI.

1) Start menu -> Settings -> Power ->...

In resource monitor select CPU tab. Then unfold "Services". It will show.

I have experienced 2 situations with high CPU of services:

ip6to4

when I disabled the tcpip6 protocol from my NIC
...

Why don't you try an let us know?

From google read this about nexus fonts: How to Disable the Windows Font Cache Service - TipsCompiler.com