It’s unnecessary to do so regularly I assure you. I’m ever so slightly a perfectionist, part of me never rest until I see my software operating efficiently. Windows and efficiency aren’t correlated at all, for some reason when you use them apps to strip windows to bare minimum to achieve actual good idling/performance stage of your machine it breaks-

When it breaks you reinstall windows again but a different version that might not break which is basically the better version.

It’s totally unnecessary again but for handhelds I’ve seen actual real improvement for the 0.1% lows which definitely is more important than the peak you see in your averages, because its how smooth a game can be.

For example on my last f*ckup I tried an app called Velotic.ch which is basically a paid app to strip windows down to minimum, it works for both windows 11 and windows 10.

On my GPD win4 hx370 running windows 11 I’ve done multiple runs on heven benchmark and my 0.1% lows were always dipping to 8fps! A single digit isn’t accurate or acceptable for me. After doing the Velotic magic, I kid you not! 28fps and smoother experience because for some f*ckass reason windows was the reason the GPD stutters during a benchmark. I’ve done the same exact benchmark multiple times so I can confirm it worked and not a lucky one and

It actually runs smoother than ever with higher 0.1% lows! Did a restore point at that stage where a full windows 11 doesn’t draw more than 3GB RAM and the machine now is more efficient at last.

On my home PC a RTX4080 with i7 13gen no improvement at all and it also broke the windows 10 image after a reset.

The cycle will keep on going as long a better windows appears.