@0xabad1dea Windows 11 'features' like this is why i switched my daily driver computer from windows 11 to macos. Not ideal, but better.

i also sometimes see the harddrive light going a rapid pace (SSD), and the computer is very non-responsive. i close down every one of my apps, and it still is saturating the computer. Open task manager (which takes minutes), and magically it is running fine. Almost like some MS apps / services are running like malware and shutdown when task manager is open. I do not trust.

yes - i try to keep task manager running all of the time on my win11 computer now.