the people complaining about this are ignorant
boosting cpu freq for certain events is a common technique in envs where latency is important. your phones do this all the time. cpu boosts during touch events, app launch, camera shutter, etc. check out pixel’s libperfmgr for example (i forgot the name but caf/qcom has something similar in their power hal). it can even be done from kernelspace entirely for some events
it’s clearly called low-latency mode and it’s clearly not on by default. shut up and let microsoft add something that isn’t copilot
Microsoft's hidden Windows 11 trick makes apps launch 70% faster. I tested it on a low-end PC, and early results are promising.
Right now, when you click Start, open File Explorer, launch Edge, or right-click for a context menu, and there’s often that tiny micro-stutter before anything happens.
Microsoft is now testing a feature called Low Latency Profile.
Once turned on, and you do a high-priority action, Windows 11 briefly pushes the CPU to max frequency for 1–3 seconds, finishes the task faster, then drops back down.
In my testing on a constrained VM with just 2 cores and 4GB RAM, the difference was obvious. Edge, Outlook, Copilot, and the Start menu opened much faster. CPU usage spiked to around 96–97%, but only for a few seconds.
For high-end PCs, the difference may be small. But for budget laptops and low-end Windows 11 machines, this could be a real game-changer.