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I also like the compatibility telemetry that uses all my CPU. Seriously, this is a problem since late Windows 7 or early Windows 10 I believe and I have seen so many systems wasting resources and running hot in summer for no reason at all.

Not only is this unwanted spyware, it is extremely inefficient spyware.

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They just recently fixed an issue where the start menu would render slowly. The solution was to let the CPU utilization and frequency spike immediately when opening the start menu instead of slowly ramping up.

Of course, that means Microsoft just admitted that Windows 11 needs the full CPU speed of a modern processor to render the start menu, which, IMX, is something that they were able to do smoothly under Windows 95 running on a 133 MHz Pentium and 4 MB of main memory without any 3d acceleration.

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