Windows 10 Stuttering with new update

Final update- 20191015

I would have never thought that what I discovered is a culprit of making system unstable for almost 5 years since the introduction of this object to the windows 10.   Its a “Notification and Action Center”

Here’s how I came to the conclusion;

1. If I plug in the charger then boot up the pc.  As long as I keep it plugged, system can streaming or playing video for days and it rock solid.
2. if I unplugged the charger.  System continues to perform as expected all the way til battery drain down below 20%
3. Here’s when the lag and stuttering first show sign and symptom.  It’s after I plug in the charger.

Times after times of cycling through battery full charge and re-charged, same micro lag and stutters occurred  5-10 minutes after charger has been inserted.  And if I leave these stutters go on, symptom will keep getting worst.  Two consequences that did happen to my system was first, system getting dragged down to a halt.  Second, search index get corrupted.

These suggested that whatever makes the system unstable it has got to be one of the services that was suspended while in power save mode and wakes up when charging.  Then coincidentally one notification came through and I click the action center, and.. BOOM!  my system gone robot!

Since I can’t shutdown ACPI.sys nor I can stop services from launching and Just to disables notification from setting doesn’t do any good.  Next best thing is to entirely remove “Notifications and Action Center”

here’s how

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/disable-action-center-windows-10/

Results;

It has been more than 3 days of charging and re-charging. Including throwing in a few tasks in between.  Even after ACPI itself throwing 11,000μs latency,

Video continues to play without any sign of stress.  (Besides one instance that buffer underrun but not from CPU overload nor stack jam but rather gone leaking somewhere for a few seconds)

And I have no interest of investigating without spec sheets.  Rather fight with the gophers in the backyard OR helping my daughter research on building the machine for PTSD detection as objective finding instead of subjective, so we can trash insurance companies by the billions on the claimes.

Summary:

• Removal of “Notification and Action Center” ** to eliminate stuttering **

-  Disable Audio Enhancements (including 3rd party)

• Run admin sfc /scannow (to ensure system integrity)
• Run troubleshoot on search index (for system integrity)
• Shutup10 to disable most Telemetry and backgrounds (optional)
• Kill RunTimeBroker service (NO)

- Disable “Sysmain”  (NO)

• Turn off background apps (optional)
• Turn off setting/privacy (optional)
• Rollback to previous version of Windows 10 (optional)
• Everything else as your discretion

For most of us who’re using desktop, keep in mind, this findings might apply to your case as well.  Since ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) it’s job is to internally regulate power.  Therefore, result of background services or condition to occur to be manifested by it.  Simply put, your system’s services get suspended and wakes up like any other laptop as well.  As to “Notification and Action Center”?   Including Audio Enhancements, Is up to Microsoft to look into.  Googling the word “Lag and stuttering “  and ton of links show up, 8000 views in some posts should be enough to set a red flag.  The offer to take my PC for free for Microsoft to do research still stand.  You know where to get me.

Sdispun signing off..

Yeah Perigele, I wish NASA let me fly one of their birds to the Jupiter because I can fly VM $150 flight simulators.  1 billion Windows out there and est. 400 millions active, I would think they can make a better decision of how to QA their development.  VM never gonna gives you touch and feel like a real thing.

Btw, I’ve found something interesting that not just mitigate the issue, I totally stabilize my system. To publish my findings of what causes the lag and stuttering, let me duplicate a few more times.  A week maybe..

Apparently Microsoft moved from testing on actual hardware to virtual machines (look for Barnacules' channel on Youtube, there's a video or two about it). It's not unexpected that these problems happen because VMs have most hardware abstracted.

Update - 20191009

I went so far of installing 19H2 preview from the fast ring without any 3rd party softwares, and early 20H1 which they claimed that it still in an unstable stage.   As usual, both stutters and grinding down the system to a halt.

Sorry Microsoft, I have to totally denied your background access to my enjoyment by killing your RunTime Broker.  With a little Sacrifice on something which for this low end entertainment system.. I much less care.

What is TimeBroker service;

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/04/06/what-is-runtime-broker-and-why-it-is-causing-high-cpu-load/

How to kill it;

https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/12707-stop-runtime-broker-running-constantly-background.html

Update - 20191010

After TimeBroker service has been put down with video is constantly running.  24 hours later all backgrounds still as dead as a doorknob, and not even one spasm.  That’s an absolute proof that whatever is dropping the crumbs, is coming from windows pre-installed.

What puzzle me and I can understand is that “Search” function won’t work since TimeBroker did not return a permission valued.  What I don’t understand is that, if I can’t type anything into input textbox, why do they allow me to paste then search results shows up.   Shouldn’t it be the other way around? by allow users to search then filter in the SQL all results that doesn’t have permission.  As well as not to activate function called.  :/

Only if I have their source code and debugger, this mystery ghost would have been found decade ago.  Because one thing that I have and Microsoft doesn’t have... the machine that I can reproduce the BUG.  I signed in, so you know where to get me.

Update - 20191002

Found what seems to be a culprit that making my laptop randomly lag and stuttering.  But first.. I’m taking the word “Stable” back, and thinking of donating my laptop to Goodwill or Salvation.

1. After a week of performing flawlessly without nonsense backgrounds,  I reboot and brought up Adge for Youtube then.. Whammy!  system grinding down to a halt again.  Probably still doesn’t know how to handle YouTube’s Polymer, "Shadow Document Object Model (DOM)" version-zero API.
2. Then video started to lag, stutters and recovered.  Side by side Task Manager and PotPlayer, every time when video lag Task Manager shows one of those services shadow copy with random number postfix spike up CPU and eat my system alive.  When I caught it red handed, it was WpnUserService, along with 8,000 other users.  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/servicewpnuserservice-4094c-causes-high-cpu-load/eff83d6b-facf-447c-98f2-2a25f350d900

And when I RegEdit my registry, found more than 15 services with the same rendom postfix.

I’m not going to blame Microsoft on this because I don’t know what those shadow copies do and what they’re for.  But one thing I know for sure.. I’M TIRED OF CHASING MICROSOFT GHOST.

Chasing after Ghosts to find out which one is dropping the crumb, most logical thing to do is to run slow behind the ghost.  Let me ask Microsoft’s managing director one last question.  How many QA stations are you assign to run on Celeron with 4gb of ram and 5400Rpm drive or eMMC? If the answer is 0(zero)...  :(

Notable; Core i7 not everybody has and if you’re going to run in front of the ghost.. What’s the point of doing QA?