![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/e8c660f6-34c2-4550-a3a6-0c856ae2def3?platform=QnA Since yesterday (28 March) Google chrome is unusable. Task manager on my windows desktop says that efficiency mode is active for several but not all sub-processes of google chrome and I believe that is the reason for the drop in performance. I am able to disable efficiency mode for each individual sub-process, but *it returns a few minutes later. I cannot permanently disable it.*Simple actions such as changing a tab or moving the window causes it to freeze for several minutes. I have no recent or current updates to install. Everything is up to date.- There are no other demanding processes / apps running on my pc- I have tried altering Chrome's performance and memory settings. Nothing changed.- This problem is the same with Edge and some other applications.- Efficiency mode is greyed out for the entire application. Only certain sub-processes of chrome are in efficiency mode. The only difference between yesterday and today, is that efficiency mode is active non-stop. I do not want efficiency mode running at all for google chrome as it is the main browser I use for work and school.

I found the solution to the problem. It worked for me. First you have to close Chrome. So you have to go to the desktop shortcut for the chrome and right click and go to the properties tab. In there go to the shortcut tab and in the target field after the text, put a space and put this command in: --disable-features=UseEcoQoSForBackgroundProcess Once you've done that, you can restart chrome and it will hopefully be out of efficiency mode.

hey, this really worked for me. thank you so much. guys do use this link and follow mentioned steps https://web.archive.org/web/20231217031440/https://techdows.com/2023/07/permanently-disable-efficiency-mode-for-chrome-in-task-manager-windows-11.html

that article seems to have been removed from their site, but it can still be found on the WBM: https://web.archive.org/web/20231217031440/https://techdows.com/2023/07/permanently-disable-efficiency-mode-for-chrome-in-task-manager-windows-11.html

My problem was fixed when I changed the efficiency mode to always off in process lasso

How to disable efficiency mode in task manager? Windows efficiency mode is making apps like Google Chrome unusable.

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![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/e8c660f6-34c2-4550-a3a6-0c856ae2def3?platform=QnASince yesterday (28 March) Google chrome is unusable. Task manager on my windows desktop says that efficiency mode is active for several but not all sub-processes of google chrome and I believe that is the reason for the drop in performance.

I am able to disable efficiency mode for each individual sub-process, but *it returns a few minutes later. I cannot permanently disable it.*Simple actions such as changing a tab or moving the window causes it to freeze for several minutes.

I have no recent or current updates to install. Everything is up to date.- There are no other demanding processes / apps running on my pc- I have tried altering Chrome's performance and memory settings. Nothing changed.- This problem is the same with Edge and some other applications.- Efficiency mode is greyed out for the entire application. Only certain sub-processes of chrome are in efficiency mode.

The only difference between yesterday and today, is that efficiency mode is active non-stop.

I do not want efficiency mode running at all for google chrome as it is the main browser I use for work and school.

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Hi, please try this method, it works for me:

https://techdows.com/2023/07/permanently-disable-efficiency-mode-for-chrome-in-task-manager-windows-11.html

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2024-05-18T18:01:32+00:00

I found the solution to the problem. It worked for me.

First you have to close Chrome. So you have to go to the desktop shortcut for the chrome and right click and go to the properties tab.

In there go to the shortcut tab and in the target field after the text, put a space and put this command in:

--disable-features=UseEcoQoSForBackgroundProcess

Once you've done that, you can restart chrome and it will hopefully be out of efficiency mode.
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2024-05-12T22:18:36+00:00

hey, this really worked for me. thank you so much.
guys do use this link and follow mentioned steps

https://web.archive.org/web/20231217031440/https://techdows.com/2023/07/permanently-disable-efficiency-mode-for-chrome-in-task-manager-windows-11.html
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2024-05-12T15:20:59+00:00

that article seems to have been removed from their site, but it can still be found on the WBM: https://web.archive.org/web/20231217031440/https://techdows.com/2023/07/permanently-disable-efficiency-mode-for-chrome-in-task-manager-windows-11.html
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2024-05-03T21:32:00+00:00

My problem was fixed when I changed the efficiency mode to always off in process lasso
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