![](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.

Hey Ivan Thanks for the response. I tried what you suggested and disabled both settings, relaunched, and turned off efficiency mode for each sub-process it was active for. Within 2 minutes, efficiency mode was re-activated, so your solution didn't seem to work. I am on a desktop so I don't think the battery one would have any effect.

My work environment involves >20 simultaneous open tabs in Google Chrome across multiple screens. Today everything was functional in morning meetings virtual meetings using Google Meet running in Google Chrome in Windows 11 OS. I ran a Windows 11 update over lunch; between meetings - to get rid of the 'update ready' prompt in the task bar. In the first (virtual) meeting after the Windows 11 update, I tried leading a Google Meet meeting and it was unusable with behavior indicative of bandwith problems. Wasted a bunch of time for myself and 12 other people messing with a now unusable Google Meet session due to camera and audio dropping frames and several words out of most sentences. In Task Manager, resource utilization was: CPU 7%, Memory 32%, Disk 1% Discovered Efficiency Mode applied to Google Chrome as noted in the original post. Made several attempts to disable Efficiency Mode to get the Google Meet session to be usable. Opened Edge browser, logged into meeting, and behavior was fine; no indication of 'bandwidth' type problems. During the meeting, swapped back to Chrome browser (with meeting in progress) and reproduced unusable behaviors similar to 'bandwidth' problems. Discovered that (within Task Manager), each instance of Chrome can be set to disable Efficiency Mode. I did this ~20 times to toggle every one of the instances' Efficiency Mode to OFF. Still during the meeting, I swapped back into Edge browser and observed no 'bandwidth' type problems. While typing this ticket, I am noticing in Task Manager that several Chrome sessions are now showing that Efficiency Mode is active again; despite my having disabled on all instances. We are extremely frustrated in the amount of our team's time wasted in the unsolicited roll out of un-requested changes which make our high-performance computers and operating system work worse. The result has the same characteristics of a Dark Pattern on behalf of Microsoft to nudge users away from Chrome. The team's sentiment in response to having their time wasted by Dark Patterns is to explore ways to migrate away from Edge and Windows products. Please revert the un-needed, not-requested code changes which now seems to make my high-performance computer running Google Chrome unusable for my work environment; or allow me to set the mode for all Chrome sessions using one setting set one time which persists on an ongoing basis for all Chrome sessions opened in the future.

Same issue. I'm on a desktop with 64 gigs of ddr4 3200. Why can't I turn this useless feature off. So frustrating.

Hey Paul Thanks for the reply, but as mentioned, i've already tried playing with those settings and it did not seem to help.

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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2023-03-30T15:08:33+00:00

Hey Ivan

Thanks for the response.

I tried what you suggested and disabled both settings, relaunched, and turned off efficiency mode for each sub-process it was active for.

Within 2 minutes, efficiency mode was re-activated, so your solution didn't seem to work.

I am on a desktop so I don't think the battery one would have any effect.
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2023-05-10T18:50:37+00:00

My work environment involves >20 simultaneous open tabs in Google Chrome across multiple screens.

Today everything was functional in morning meetings virtual meetings using Google Meet running in Google Chrome in Windows 11 OS.

I ran a Windows 11 update over lunch; between meetings - to get rid of the 'update ready' prompt in the task bar.

In the first (virtual) meeting after the Windows 11 update, I tried leading a Google Meet meeting and it was unusable with behavior indicative of bandwith problems. Wasted a bunch of time for myself and 12 other people messing with a now unusable Google Meet session due to camera and audio dropping frames and several words out of most sentences.

In Task Manager, resource utilization was: CPU 7%, Memory 32%, Disk 1%

Discovered Efficiency Mode applied to Google Chrome as noted in the original post.

Made several attempts to disable Efficiency Mode to get the Google Meet session to be usable.

Opened Edge browser, logged into meeting, and behavior was fine; no indication of 'bandwidth' type problems.

During the meeting, swapped back to Chrome browser (with meeting in progress) and reproduced unusable behaviors similar to 'bandwidth' problems.

Discovered that (within Task Manager), each instance of Chrome can be set to disable Efficiency Mode. I did this ~20 times to toggle every one of the instances' Efficiency Mode to OFF.

Still during the meeting, I swapped back into Edge browser and observed no 'bandwidth' type problems.

While typing this ticket, I am noticing in Task Manager that several Chrome sessions are now showing that Efficiency Mode is active again; despite my having disabled on all instances.

We are extremely frustrated in the amount of our team's time wasted in the unsolicited roll out of un-requested changes which make our high-performance computers and operating system work worse. The result has the same characteristics of a Dark Pattern on behalf of Microsoft to nudge users away from Chrome. The team's sentiment in response to having their time wasted by Dark Patterns is to explore ways to migrate away from Edge and Windows products.

Please revert the un-needed, not-requested code changes which now seems to make my high-performance computer running Google Chrome unusable for my work environment; or allow me to set the mode for all Chrome sessions using one setting set one time which persists on an ongoing basis for all Chrome sessions opened in the future.
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2023-04-10T22:38:40+00:00

Same issue. I'm on a desktop with 64 gigs of ddr4 3200. Why can't I turn this useless feature off.

So frustrating.
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2023-03-29T16:40:26+00:00

Hey Paul

Thanks for the reply, but as mentioned, i've already tried playing with those settings and it did not seem to help.
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