Selectively disable Efficiency Mode for certain apps.

[jagdeepsb]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Since a recent windows update (I believe it was Windows 11 22H2), I have been unable to successfully turn off Efficiency Mode for Chrome, which makes Chrome at least x2 slower -- very annoying.

The recommended method for disabling efficiency mode seems to be as follows: open the task manager, right click on each Chrome subprocesses (there are many), click to disable efficiency mode. This is a temporary solution that is effective for about 5 minutes before windows once again puts those subprocesses in "efficiency mode jail".

The proposed solution is something that programmatically monitors and disables efficiency mode for all subprocesses of a particular app (there may be a better solution as well).

Please note that I am quite unfamiliar with this issue or with the underlying implementation. If there is a better solution or if someone has discovered a better work-around I would love to hear it 😄.

Scenario when this would be used?

Any power user who wants the full value out of their machine. Any power user who doesn't want their productivity to be throttled. Any power user who wants further fine-grained control of the resource consumption of apps on their machine.

Supporting information

Other people experiencing this:

• https://twitter.com/ChrisLenga/status/1655733411821019136
• https://twitter.com/TECH013/status/1654969643638099968
• https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/209470172/how-to-stop-chrome-from-putting-tabs-into-efficiency-mode-in-task-manager?hl=en
• https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-disable-efficiency-mode-in-task-manager/153cfb3c-5c66-4804-a966-19bdb40d6dd4
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/136uxjs/any_solution_on_how_to_permanently_disable/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/13d51xh/disable_efficiency_mode_in_widows_11_for_google/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/13d3im4/disable_efficiency_mode_in_widows_11_for_google/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/107fj69/how_can_i_disable_the_efficiency_mode_on_firefox/

[araujo88]

Any updates on implementing this feature?

[nguyen-dows]

Hi @jagdeepsb and @araujo88, we appreciate you bringing up your experience with Efficiency Mode but this request is out of scope for us as the PowerToys team.