The time to go brew a coffee whenever you start a taxing program on Windows could soon be a thing of the past. Reports by Windows Central and other sources suggest that Microsoft is testing a new Low Latency Profile feature that could speed up the start of apps by up to 70 percent.
The idea behind the feature is straightforward: Boost the processors frequency for certain taxing tasks on the system to speed them up. Examples are the opening of apps, system flyouts, or the display of menus on the system.
According to Windows Central, app starts could be boosted by up to 40 percent while the launch times of interfaces could be boosted up to 70 percent.
Depending on the PC that you are using, these things may happen near instantly already all the time. Deskmodder tested the feature in an Insider build recently and concluded that it does not really help, if the PC in question is modern.
However, when a PC is older, it could indeed speed up certain options noticeably.
The new feature is part of Microsoft’s effort to improve the performance and stability of the operating system. It is but one of the changes that Microsoft is testing currently. Others include optimizing apps or code, or switching to modern interfaces.
The new Low Latency Profile feature runs in the background automatically. Whether there will be an option in Settings or elsewhere to disable the feature remains to be seen. It is likely that there will be at least a Group Policy and Regedit option to manage that.
Phantom of Earth posted the relevant IDs for the feature on X.
If you want to try out Low Latency Profile in recent Insider builds and see if it makes any difference, enable these feature IDs:
LowLatencyProfile: 60716524
LowLatencyProfileForApplicationLaunch: 61391826
Run .\vivetool /enable /id:60716524,61391826 in Terminal (elevated) to enable these.
Your PC would have to be too old to run windows 11 for this to make any difference /facepalm
My guess is MS will suspend CoPilot, Recall, and telemetry processes on lower-performance systems while new programs or menus are opening. This should give a sizable boost and not much programming change.
“The new feature is part of Microsoft’s effort to improve the performance and stability of the operating system.”
The only way to improve the performance and stability of Windows 11 would be to rewrite it from scratch. Microsoft has always been known to repaint dirty walls before cleaning them. Getting worse with time. I’ve never been a fan of Google to put it mildly but one has to admit that their codes are at least clean in terms of efficiency even if, as all of GAFAM, arguable for the least in terms of privacy.