SOMETHING BROKE

Game and app priorities

If the whole machine stutters whenever one game or program runs (choppy mouse, crackling audio, slow alt-tab), or a program behaves oddly at every launch, removes the persistent CPU and I/O priority rules — whichever tool wrote them — restoring the Windows default.

What to do

  1. Open w0a
  2. Go to the Fix page in the left menu
  3. Type oncelik into the search box
  4. Press the button on the Game and app priorities card

What the card's answer means

After you press it, the card writes a line underneath. Which line you get decides your next step.

What this card actually does

If the whole machine stutters whenever one game or program runs (choppy mouse, crackling audio, slow alt-tab), or a program behaves oddly at every launch, removes the persistent CPU and I/O priority rules — whichever tool wrote them — restoring the Windows default.

Every repair card writes back the Windows default unconditionally; it does not depend on a backup of w0a's own existing. So it also helps if some other tool was what changed your machine.

If it did not help

If the card said it fixed something and the problem is still there, these settings were not the cause. Write to us — tell us which card you ran and what it printed; the two together are what narrows it down.

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