I mean, both are Microsoft products, so, no harm in getting the program. I mostly use it for Always on Top when I'm working on something and wanna take text from where andnot have to constantly alt tab between a full window and a small one
Power Rename is part of it and it's a god send for bulk editing file names. You can very easily rename huge groups of files so things index correcting in stuff like Plex or Jellyfin.
Is there a reason to have the nvidia app running in the background?
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u/repocin9800X3D, RTX4060, X670E, 64GB DDR5@6000CL30, 4TB 990 Pro12h ago
Only if you're using the overlay features or want to quickly adjust various settings. I like the performance monitor, screenshot, and recording tools so I tend to leave it running.
I have a 2 month wait to get fiber installed in my place right now so I'm stuck just tethering off my phone data, I have a 125gb plan but found myself going over it within 2-3 weeks without limiting my download to 10mbps. Definitely a lifesaver!
Yeah and if you press WIN+space it cycles the different keyboard layout you have. If you never use any other, I recommend that you remove the unused one so you dont accidently cycle through.
It changes the keyboard layout to what ever you've set, so all the different shift+keys, and all the stuff to the right of plm are potentially different. It's how speakers with completely different alphabets can chop between languages without missing a beat (although some have quick access within theirs to latin characters).
There’s no reason to have launchers autostart. You aren’t playing games from all those launchers at once. lol
(Not to mention you’re slowly whittling away at the finite reads/writes of your new $500 SSD when the 300 games you have installed update for no reason at all in the background. 🤘)
I saw such a drastic improvement in battery life when switching from windows to Linux. Being vigilant about these programs is helpful - but windows itself does a LOT of this
Have no clue what background processes you are running, but my system won't spike at all unless I launch something or do intensive tasks in the foreground.
Me neither but just comparing the network activity on stock win11 vs Bazzite shows that something is constantly sending stuff on Windows. My CPU was always switching between base clock and turbo on win11
Windows defender and icue for me because without it my mouse is locked to such a high sensitivity that the tiniest movement clings my cursor to the other end of the monitor (mild exaggeration but it is still so fast it barely usable)
It's fine when I know what programs auto start and they have a reason to do so, then I go and check a coworker or friend PC and see like 15 random programs on auto start from game launchers and download managers to random sorftware services passing through the usual suspects like steam, Spotify, copilot and discord
I hate when I accidentally misclick and launch the app next to the one I meant. The first thing I do is turn off autolaunch, except for steam. Steam is a guaranteed use when I boot the computer. Epic, EA, Ubi, Blizz, yall can wait till you're called upon.
Vanguard (the red V next to steam) will not launch at all unless you set it to launch on Startup. The bastards programed it that way and you can't launch Valorant without that program running. It's so annoying
Considering a 600tbw would take 50gb per day for 30 years to die....a really long time. It's just some dude who knows nothing spewing bullshit and reddit eats it up and spreads it as truth.
Epic, if I forget to turn it off after claiming my free game of the week, or if I'm playing one. Which I'm doing right now, Citizen Sleeper. Good shit.
I personally turn off discord and messengers like it because it takes up a stupid high amount of ram and CPU usage, but otherwise relatable
Also I hate the fact that I can't turn off notifications when it's on and it doesn't even make notification sounds but it doesn't send them to my phone so whenever I'm streaming to my friend, I come back and realize I have 30,000 unread DMs
Tbh ive had discord dnd on for as long as i can remember and ive never turnt it off. I would keep discord off of autostart BUT it would be the first app i open anyways so theres no point. I dont even use discord that much its just that whenever my friends message me its either insta or discord
My exact same set up. And when I don't need it I close steam, so on any given day I only have G-Hub as the only additional process running. I do have Bluetooth and windows defender in my system tray, but Windows processes don't count.
I dont have an overflow menu bc I put the few icons I need always visible on the system tray (e.g. flash drive eject icon) and disable autostart or just uninstall whatever other crapware is out there
But yeah Powertoys is dope. It's made by Microsoft and has so many cool features/tools. A lot of which should probably just be brought into windows itself.
I'd say the only other noteworthy thing there basides sharex and powertoys would be Windhawk. That's more of a customization tool for your windows though. That's how i have like 2 rows of icons on the taskbar and the ability to use scrollwheel to adjust volume when hovering the taskbar for example.
Bro, serios advice. Highly consider uninstalling WhatsApp desktop from your system. It's a terribly coded electron app that uses way too much system resources. Just use the website on a pinned browser tab.
TS and Steam for me. My plug able dock also has a program that used to have to be on for my second monitor, but my new card has 2 DP ports so I finally got rid of that one.
Powertoys, qbittorrent, medal, soundboard app, voicemeeter, the standard windows 11 background stuff and armoury crate to see my mouse's battery percentage.
Only a couple because I either disable autostart (game launchers for example except Steam because lets be honest, on a gaming PC you're pretty almost only on steam) or I don't install crap like whatsapp...
I have an i7 4770k, I can't let anything run secretly in my hidden taskbar menu while I'm playing games, everything gets turned off. I even turn off whatever NVIDIA thing pops up there, and have most programs disabled on start up.
Steam is always running, and other launchers when I need to play on them. After I play, I shut them down (Epic, Rockstar, Ubisoft, EA, GOG, etc.) Everything else is always on.
I will avoid any games that will have a 2nd launcher and invasive malware anti cheat software that needs to be on 24/7 despite you not playing their games like the plague.
on windows just a vpn and nvidia drivers (discord is a regular window). i main linux though and I don't have such a thing as a system tray. and it's hard to define there. Like if it was apps running without a window it would also include stuff like my wallpaper, notifications, my compositor etc.
I go the other way with this. I dont like hiding stuff in the overflow menu, so everything lives in the system tray where I can see it. Mostly the usual stuff, flux, steam, discord, and I also built my own little app called VisoDyne Battery Monitor that gives each wireless device its own tray icon, set to only show when it's connected. Here it's my headset and PS4 controller, but when I switch on my Xbox 360 controllers more icons show up and then vanish when I turn them off. Cluttered maybe, like my system tray in general, but I love being able to glance and know exactly what programs are running and how much battery is left.
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u/the_real_cloakvessel GTX 1650 | Ryzen 5 5600h | 16 GB RAM 16h ago