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Post ProdigyHow to Turn OFF Efficiency Mode
Hi, Shelley
Thank you for your reply. We are paying attention to this issue. Since the allocation of processes and the decision on how to schedule them, whether to use Efficiency Mode is managed by Windows design, I tried to learn a lot of feedback about this mode from the Internet. Many users encountered the same problem as you in other applications: Efficiency Mode was automatically enabled, causing the application to run slowly.
Your button being grayed out is consistent with this issue:
Efficiency Mode is greyed out(Windows 11) - Microsoft Community
You can try the solution of the user below. For the specific method, click the link below and raise a new question in the Windows forum to let Windows professionals guide you on how to achieve your goal.
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Best Regards
Jianpeng Li
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Post ProdigyThank you Anonymous Jianpeng as this gave me something to try, but I could not modify the shortcut in Windows 11 to turn off Efficiency Mode as the poster had suggested.
My best luck to this point has been thanks to one of my teammates who suggested downloading Power BI from the Power BI site NOT the Microsoft Store. From the site, Power BI does not perform the same "auto" efficiency mode in Windows, and so my performance has improved; HOWEVER, it is still very slow in refreshes as well as any steps in the query editor. I looked in the Task Manager, and it appears that Webview 2, which Power BI is using is going into Efficiency Mode just like Power BI Desktop was, and again, I cannot disable it. This is so frustrating.
I posted inside our company team and several others are pinging me about their complete frustration with how slow Power BI is for them too. Please, please bring this to the attention of your Power BI people so they can have some impact and/or influence with the Windows team as this is really giving Power BI a bad reputation.