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Disregard the original steam shortcut and only use the batch scripts below to launch steam
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There is a slight CPU utilization penalty which can be circumvented by suspending the problematic thread
- See this comment
steam-no-browser.bat:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 | |
; remove pin to quick access in context menu | |
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\pintohome] | |
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\pintohome] | |
; hide frequent folders in quick access | |
; hide recent folders in quick access |
@echo off | |
DISM > nul 2>&1 || echo error: administrator privileges required >&2 && exit /b 1 | |
where xperf.exe > nul 2>&1 | |
if not %errorlevel% == 0 ( | |
echo error: xperf not found in path. install "Windows Performance Toolkit" in the ADK from the link below >&2 | |
echo https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install | |
exit /b 1 | |
) |
param( | |
[switch]$verbose | |
) | |
# The variables starting with $GLOBAL store values that should be applied to all XHCI controllers by default. | |
# To override this default value on a per-controller basis, specify the DEV_XXXX hardware ID value for the XHCI controller along with its data | |
# See the example below. | |
# | |
# $globalInterval = 0x0 | |
# $globalHCSPARAMSOffset = 0x4 |
Disregard the original steam shortcut and only use the batch scripts below to launch steam
There is a slight CPU utilization penalty which can be circumvented by suspending the problematic thread
steam-no-browser.bat: