How to permanently disable Windows 11 "efficiency mode"?

Anonymous
2023-08-01T12:40:29+00:00

New system

"Efficiency Mode" to OFF

Settings to maximize performance.

Opened Edge with 9 tabs, used for 15 minutes (every tab)

19 tabs and processes in "Efficiency Mode"

Types question

30 tabs and processes in "Efficiency Mode"

Windows STOPPED

Unable to change tabs or programs

The (anti) efficiency mode is severely disrupting system performance.

WHY?

How do I STOP this?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-01T13:37:21+00:00

    Thank you for the response.

    That switch is (and has been) OFF, with ZERO effect.

    This (anti) efficiency mode has DESTRYED any efficiency this new computer had.

    My 10 year old Widows 10 computer is orders of magnitude more efficient than this new Windows 11 machine!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-21T00:52:04+00:00

    With all due respect I was one of the top 50,000 Win95 testers internationally as well as a high level C# programmer for Department of Defense.

    I use Chrome all the time. Once I went to Windows 11 with the 23H2 update my use of YouTube is ****.

    The stupid, moronic efficiency mode says it only sleeps tabs that are not used. Yet the tab that I am on pauses and stops completely EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to search YouTube videos. EVERY TIME. This tab is active and yet it is constantly being stopped for seconds at a time.

    So I switched to your stupid browser. Immediately I experienced the exact same thing. I go to YouTube and just moving my mouse causes everything to lock up. FOR AS MUCH AS 15 SECONDS. Then I found a post stating how to "turn it off in Edge". But even after doing that the stupid green leaves keep appearing and the pauses keep appearing. In fact, I'm surprised I can actually write in this page without that pile of dog poo from locking up my browser.

    So someone on reddit then said that Brave avoided it. So I installed and tried Brave. I had exactly the same results, so whatever Brave had that hid it from this ignorant and poorly written pile of dog poop is now letting Efficiency Mode to discover Brave and screw up all of it's performance.

    But interestingly enough I see that you are only attacking browsers with it. I do not see the disgusting green leaves on anything else.

    This so called efficiency mode is absolutely HORRIBLE. It is destroying the ability to use the browser on YouTube, on Rumble, on X. So far you people have not managed to screw up mail yet but I'm sure the next update will destroy that as well. But it is obvious that PEOPLE (your effing customers who pay for this ****) need the ability to say "thanks, but no thanks" to this abomination of code.;

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-02T13:03:37+00:00

    The system also decides, on its on, to jump back multiple screens (multi keyboards and mice)

    System specs:

    Brand new computer (for gaming)

    I9 processor

    64 Gig Ram

    Plenty of SSD storage availabl

    Per request:

    SimpSysLog.evtx

    SimAppLog.evtx

    Already performed total system reset

    EXTREMELY frustrated that I cannot use a brand new computer

    Lawrence

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-26T02:04:41+00:00

    Efficiency Mode is the culprit.

    Adding the flag --disable-features=UseEcoQoSForBackgroundProcess to shortcuts for Chromium browers disables it. For Firefox, you have to set dom.ipc.processPriorityManager.backgroundUsesEcoQoS in about:config to false.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-03T18:32:00+00:00

    I would like to meet the engineer that thought this was a good idea and give them a piece of my mind !!!

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