plugins-extra VS bug.n

Or Process Hacker (https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/) which IMO is even better.

I can use Process Hacker and run "Reduce working set" on it, which makes explorer.exe instantly go down to ~100MB. However, it just starts leaking RAM again and it's a matter of hours until it grows back to several GB.

I can't have a task manager style tool installed? It's completely safe and does NOTHING in terms of cheating, no other game has ever flagged it as false positive. Is this AC so bad that it sees the word "h4Ck3R" and thinks it needs to be removed? What else is this thing needlessly scanning my computer for?

you need Process Hacker

You mean this? https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

http://www.lucashale.com/timer-resolution/ set to maximum https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ Set valheim.exe priority to high and save it.

If you are on the latest BIOS, the next thing I'd be looking at is something that's hitting I/O, either use Process Hacker: https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ or task manager to try and catch the process causing the problem.

Please use a decent task manager like Process hacker or Task manager deluxe, the Windows one is kinda lacking functionality.

There is even a dwm-style extremely comprehensive tiling window manager called bug.n [1], which I downloaded it way back in windows 8 days. Made a lot of changes myself and plan to open source it as a fork. Its too good. And combined with the rest of my AHK scripts, my windows setup turns out to be even more customised than many Linux systems I use.

See my post of my windows setup fooling r/unixporn [2] for how it could look.

[1] https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

bug.n — Amongst other flavours is a dynamic, tiling window manager, which tries to clone the functionality of dwm

another comment mentioned what you're looking for is a window manager: another for windows is bug.n

So when i said "window manager based Linux" I was mostly referring to the stereotypes of the Linux window manager; which 1 person not even having a mouse; staring apps; moving windows doing everything with their keyboard. If you wanna look a bit more into window managers for windows the only "okay" one that I've personally used is bug.n and for Linux there's tons; but my personal fav is I3

you can implement the wm manager of your dreams in ahk ... in like 500 lines. it's amazing stuff.

you can also go all out: https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

komorebi recently became the second-most starred dynamic tiling window manager for Windows 10+, behind bug.n, which unfortunately seems to have been officially abandoned as of this past week.

What exists on windows today (bug.n and others) isn't good enough.