HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc set DWORD to 1, must take ownership of that key by right click, properties, security, add, search "your user name", allow all, apply. That's if WAAS really bugs ya. My Windows Update key change was suggested by a Microsoft official site when someone asked about their game crashing. So the moderator told him to make the registry change and that it might add a few FPS. I tried it, no increase as my PC was only updating once a day at a time when I'm not usually gaming. Or I would have already manually updated stopping the task clock. Either way, I found impact of that Windows service minimal to non-issue.
I really don't like those service editing programs like "O&O shutup" type stuff. "O&O shutup" highjacked my browser, exposed my private IP, shutdown Quad9 by inputting it's own DNS, and made all the requested changes without triggering UAC, which shows it's a high risk app to begin with. I stopped using IObit stuff as well, and do all the same stuff manually. The only 3rd party "cleaner" I use is CCleaner and DDU when needed. Out of curiosity who is "we" that you reference in using that app in your video?
I rely on my 20+ years sales/service of PC's, primarily AMD based builds running my own business experience and gaming semi-professionally from 2006-2010. People really should learn the basics of navigating the registry, making their own changes as these 3rd party apps can really get out of hand, adding possible bloatware, nothing is truly free, "easy" doesn't mean right and learning this stuff is not that hard.
Data loss could occur and I have lost an OS by uninstalling the AMD chipset driver to update it because once Windows installs, that driver becomes hard coded and no longer updates for some reason. So uninstalling that caused my SSD to no longer be bootable, Windows "start-up repair" couldn't do it and even "reset this PC" failed due to the UUID not matching the original driver. So I saved "my documents" (game settings and such store there), "my pictures", "videos", etc. using a dock/flash drive connected to my laptop. Reinstalled the OS and redownloaded tons of games, a real pain in the butt over a driver.
Why people claim DDU fails to remove AMD settings does not make sense. Unless you have Afterburner or something similar and fail to uninstall that prior to the driver, DDU gets it all, audio too if you check that box. That's where using CCleaner can quickly look for leftovers in the registry, usually there's none. I won't say "never", because then someone will post they found leftovers.
For as many years we all have complained about AMD drivers now, they will never be fixed. Mainly because at least today's video driver's cover 4-6 years worth of cards. My confidence in the way they code them has long ago waned. I think we will always need to read the release notes and determine for ourselves whether a driver update has a benefit we need, like new game support or genuine fix. I noticed in the releases there's 12 fixes/added support items to 10 known issues that are usually the same one's plaguing us all. That's why with this card, since there's nothing of value added past the 20.8.3, I stick with it. The most stable is the 20.4.2 but it lacks support for a few games and has a few bugs I didn't care for in it.
AMD needs to separate the driver packages into ones that supports Big Navi, Navi , then one for older Ellesmere, and so on GPU's. Possibly refine or get rid off some of the post processing options as well. I mean 400+MB is a healthy size driver package, with animations, advertising, auto-updates enabled from the start, hardware updater checker, a bit much. If one's not savvy enough to trim off the "fat", it tends to clog the "arteries" with too much extra non-sense that runs in the back round. Far worse than Windows back round apps which most of us disable all but security anyway. Windows services I disable via "computer management", so I keep only what I need on. A lot of this is fact, some is opinion in this post. :smileyhappy:
"It worked before you broke it!"
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