Microsoft is not planning to restore some missing taskbar featuresĭuring an AMA posted on YouTube, members of Windows Insiders and the developer team confirmed that restoring some taskbar features isn’t currently a priority. Based on the statement posted in Feedback Hub, it looks like the company is not planning to restore the registry hack, at least for now. Of course, it goes without saying that it was not a good idea to disable the optional registry hack that enabled seconds on the taskbar. The company has been trying to reduce periodic activities and that’s why it is good for performance or battery backup if periodic times have a minimum period of one minute.
“Any periodic activity with a rate faster than one minute incurs the scrutiny of the Windows performance team because periodic activity prevents the CPU from entering a low-power state,” Microsoft noted. It’s a bad thing for performance since it basically means Windows will need to spend extra time on updating clocks and the “periodic activity” will prevent the CPU from entering a low-power state, thus affecting the overall performance. The same theory also applies to systems that aren’t Terminal Servers. In fact, many server administrators disable the taskbar clock entirely to reduce the load on processing power. This means the server would page a hundred stacks to paint a hundred taskbar clocks.įor this particular reason, server admins usually disable ‘caret blinking’ to reduce CPU usage as caret blinking across a hundred users will contribute to CPU usage.
In servers with multi-user support, the system will try to update the taskbar clock once a second for each user that signs in have their own taskbar clock. Let’s consider a configuration with multi-user support, like Terminal servers.
While system memory is no longer the main concern as all devices now have a lot more than 4MB of memory, the frequent updates required for displaying seconds on the taskbar can still make your device slower than usual. So why not bring back the taskbar clock with seconds support? The reason is still performance, according to a new post on Microsoft’s dev blog.
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