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Actually only Enable the Built-in Admin at boot applies (I said only offline file system access is possible in that scenario). However, the recovery boot console won't work with TPM-secured Bitlocker (if you don't have the recovery key). Even if you can read the Bitlocker volume master key...

If you already have admin access, you don't need the utilman hack...

Add an admin account with only having (offline!) access to the file system. I already achieved what I needed to achieve, I was just wondering if there's possibly an easier and/or smarter way when the utilman method is blocked.

Yes, the linked blog post only talks about debuggers, but many (including myself) encountered blocked execution when the exe is replaced.

I don't need to use it often, so I didn't test it extensively, i.e. whether that's now default out-of-the-box behavior or whether it requires specific Defender settings. I encoutered this behavior on a domain-connected laptop with a fresh Win 11 (so it might have been a group policy thing as...

I literally said that.

A few years ago MS "fixed" the most widely used exploit for resetting a user password by replacing any of the "ease of access" tools (utilman.exe, osk.exe, sethc.exe and so on) with a copy of cmd.exe to get a console with system privileges. Of course you already needed file system access for...

It sounds promising, but it looks like "just" a core affinity tool that blocks processes from using E-cores. I want the encoder to use all cores, not just P-cores, but prevent Windows from kicking it off the P-cores when it's in the background.

It's (I suppose) a Win11 problem and our applications are a small niche for these CPUs. Dedicated "high performance computing" tends to be done with Threadrippers or straight away server CPUs and on other OSes, so nobody will ever care about this, unfortunately.

I meant, can you see that the P-cores are idling and only the E-cores are used in P+E mode? Yeah, if it's a window-less service, there's not much you can do to use all cores except changing the OS...

What's the core load according to task manager in normal mode and with E-cores off? Also, does the application run in a foreground window? Then it should use P+E cores. If it's minimized or in the background, it will only use E-cores, then the overall performance will be horrible, of course...

I see, mine can't be changed because it's already using the high performance plan.

That setting seems to exist only on laptops. On desktops the settings page is just "Power", not "Power & battery", so the battery saving options don't apply.

Which encoder was that? Well, sounds like an easy solution on Windoes 10, too bad it doesn't work on 11. You also mentioned "best performance" power mode makes it use P-cores in the background on Windows 11 (but not fully), which I could never observe. Do you mean the "high performance" plan in...

I understand the purpose of "auto mode" and it's usually desired behavior for desktop/workstation use, but it's kind of outrageous not to let the user override the auto-mode for CPU-intensive background tasks and expecting each app to do the override itself through some API. It should be trivial...