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Well that's one way of dealing with it 😂

@Edwin @Winuser that's exactly it. I'm glad I've been able to explain myself. Unfortunately since setting 100% scaling on my laptop means I'd also need glasses, I never thought about it o.o @spapakons I mean this which at 125% scaling on my 1080p laptop monitor is approximately two pixel wide...

would be nice to have a web version of that but I will do it eventually didn't think about that, thanks :) I do have winaero tweaker installed, but I think that function involves the aero theme for non-maximized (normal) windows (I don't remember if the padding goes away in W7 for maximized...

Nevermind, I've found the "solution". My laptop is usually set at the recommended 125% scaling while the desktop PC is set at 100% scaling (quite a bigger monitor) Indeed, if I set my laptop's screen scaling at 100% the deadzone is gone. Clearly there's something wrong with the tabs design, be...

Today I was using a W11 22631.3155 machine and noticed that I wasn't missing the file explorer tabs all the time, then I realized that on that machine there is no two-pixel-wide dead space between the tabs and the screen's top edge, unlike on my 22621.3155 laptop Is that a new feature on the...

@Almighty1 yeah unfortunately Dell's fan profile is not reactive enough. Unfortunately I have no other ideas but I hope you'll find the best thing for your machine :)

@Almighty1 I understand, if you haven't already done so I'd suggest to check in Task Manager for DWM.exe memory usage. What you are describing sounds a lot like how a memory leak would and DWM had a pretty bad one some time ago, which was then solved by the newer Intel graphics drivers. Also...

@hdmi I've never even encountered the diskmaxpower setting, that's pretty interesting. It's more and more apparent that you know what you're talking about o_O Thanks for sharing the good stuff

@hdmi Thanks for everything :) I do suggest trying what I've said in the first post, it won't do much if your PC is doing unprompted background stuff but I imagine you've already checked for that (Windows Update in primis, etc). My Dell machine is always reluctant to spin up the fans (it wants...

@Berton unfortunately my laptop is new enough not to have the removable battery >:( anyway yours is a good idea but I had higher idle temperatures on AC even when just idling and everything else taken care of (100% battery etc). It's just some good(ironically) old(not so ironically) Windows...

@spapakons it is not relevant because I'm talking about idle usage, as explicitly specified in the first post. Of course what you're saying about keeping the cooling system clean is always good practice. I have now edited the thread's title for clarity @Almighty1 that's a big oof lol. You might...

@spapakons that's exactly not the point of this thread :)

@Almighty1 don't worry, thanks for your suggestions anyway. What I posted is good only for idle/low usage and it will not make a difference once you start pushing your machine (and that's when throttlestop etc really comes into play)

@Almighty1 you're right, though unfortunately on many machines undervolting is disabled because of security fixes etc. Anyway Xtu, Throttlestop etc act at a lower level than the stuff I posted, which is just a Windows design thing users have no obvious control (or clue) about. Even if you could...

Hi everyone, something's probably wrong with my hands, anyway I've always been able to feel my laptop's keyboard getting sligthly warmer on AC compared to DC, even when left at idle. While the temperature difference was noticeable (from HWinfo too), the performance difference was not I've never...