{"id":216912,"date":"2026-05-12T17:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/microsoft-will-lean-on-your-cpu-to-speed-up-windows-11s-apps-and-animations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:49:21","slug":"microsoft-will-lean-on-your-cpu-to-speed-up-windows-11s-apps-and-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/microsoft-will-lean-on-your-cpu-to-speed-up-windows-11s-apps-and-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11&#8217;s apps and animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Microsoft has heard your complaints about Windows 11, and it wants to make things better. That has been the messaging out of Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/microsoft-keeps-insisting-that-its-deeply-committed-to-the-quality-of-windows-11\/\">for most of this year<\/a>, and the company is also going out of its way to make sure that people know what is being improved and how.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the goals on Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2026\/03\/20\/our-commitment-to-windows-quality\/\">long list<\/a> was to improve the performance of core Windows components like the Start menu and File Explorer. One of the strategies for making this happen is something Microsoft is calling the \u201clow latency profile,\u201d which will speed things up by calling on an extra burst of CPU speed when users open Start or other apps and context menus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Windows Central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft\/windows-11\/microsoft-is-working-on-major-performance-boost-for-windows-11-that-will-speed-up-app-launches-and-common-actions-by-automatically-maxing-out-cpu-in-short-bursts\">has tested<\/a> the low latency profile available in test builds of Windows 11 and observed a noticeable increase in speed and responsiveness on the same hardware compared to the current public version of Windows 11 25H2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/speed-boosting-low-latency-profile-is-one-of-the-improvements-coming-to-windows-11\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/speed-boosting-low-latency-profile-is-one-of-the-improvements-coming-to-windows-11\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has heard your complaints about Windows 11, and it wants to make things better. 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