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

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

how i can disable it

OK, I have a working solution that actually prevents this efficiency mode from starting. This is not a fix but a work around.

Now, this really is super simple. When I started this, Windows was changing my settings back to normal like it does when you try and turn off this E-mode using task manager. And I found a solution to this too. Still just as easy.

All you have to do is set this to run in compatibility with Windows 8. But as I said it may switch back. If you look at the bottom of the properties window, it has 'Change settings for all users' and you fill this in with the proper settings. Now if you look at your settings page, you may need to reload the properties window, but you should see the settings greyed out. This seems to lock them in and windows does not change the settings back so far.

I retested this several times and have no trace of the efficiency mode coming back on. I do believe this will work for everybody. No leaves. No regedit. No settings deep in some application or stowed away in some file in a long lost hidden directory. It is simple. Run for windows 8 and run for all users.

I set Edge back to default and this solution here seems to be the answer to this problem and it should work for every application that has the problem with this unbelievable **** that MS has done to all of us. I believe this is the working solution to the problem so far. Windows could change this in another so called fix they give us. But it works as of right now. I have an up to date Windows 11.

This image pretty much shows all you have to do.

It seems the problem with this is efficiency mode is changing the priority of the tabs to low causing them to stop working completely when you have a lot going on (check the [details] tab in the task manager). If you have other tasks going, you just have to wait and there is nothing you can do but wait even if you focus on a particular tab. LEAVE MY PRIORITIES ALONE MICROSOFT because the way you do this simply is awful and it does not work for anybody.

In all due respect, let me give you a bit of advice, MS Engineers. If you want this to work, switch the tab that IS in focus to normal or even above normal and this would work like a champ. The way it is now everything freezes because all the tabs we want to see are in low priority it seems.

I see the logic here and I believe it would work if you would do it right. Simply switching all our tabs to low priority is rather a fairly dumb move as you can see because people have been complaining for years now that it does not work. I believe it can if you concentrate on the focused window. It will do exactly as you want. I believe this is what you planned. Switching to low priority and calling it good is just simply a dumb move as everybody here points out.

[Later I will install another chrome browser and run tests on it to see if this is a total workable solution.]

See the solution in the next reply directly below.

I found something that helped a lot. It still has the issue. I was reading that Edge has this efficiency mode built in. And it has controls in Edge to turn it off. So I went into Edge and shut down everything in the system settings. It has a switch for the efficiency mode there plus others. I don't use edge and I shut them all off.

~~Like I said, it doesn't eliminate the problem we have with the Chrome type browsers but it seems to have a much less impact.  I open over 30 tabs that are all multimedia so my PC is busy at the start trying to load all these pages.  I get a lot of pages to load but the last 10 or so the problem shows up.  It was doing this before I applied this fix and I might get a few pages to load.  Now I get most load but it will still have its issue.  I use Brave if it matters.~~

1. Press Win + R, type regedit, and hit Enter.
2. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerThrottling.
3. Change the value of PowerThrottlingOff to 1 to disable throttling for all processes.
4. Restart your system to apply changes.
5. Note: Editing the registry can have unintended consequences, so back it up before making changes.