I do believe you are absolutely 100% correct. I had PotPlayer installed on my old system and installed on this new one, but have not used it. Just tried it and the preview is there.
You know how you hover your mouse along the bottom of the seek bar and as you move along the seek bar you get a preview of the content at that location. Youtube videos have the same thing.
Well Window 11 Media Player does not show the preview as you move the cursor along the seek bar. I see...
Uninstalled Edge Game Assist and it stopped Edge and Edge Game Assist from running in the background when I launched Elite Dangerous, marking this thread as solved.
While I was at it I also uninstalled Game Bar and XBox.
I found out that when I start Elite Dangerous and start X Foundation through Steam this starts Edge and Edge Gaming Assist running as background processes. For details you can see this thread in Eleven Forums.
Should a game start Edge and Edge Gaming Assist running as background processes...
In Edge Settings>System & Performance>System plus Edge Settings>System & Performance>Performance I have everything disabled. In Task Scheduler I have the two standard Edge scheduled tasks disabled. In Services I have the three standard Edge services disabled. There is nothing else to disable...