IT Performance

On the Minecraft: Java Edition title screen, the Multiplayer and Minecraft Realms buttons were greyed out. Hovering over them showed "Multiplayer is disabled. Please check your Microsoft account settings." The cause was a single Xbox privacy setting. But after I switched that setting to Allow, nothing changed for about 30 minutes, and signing out of the launcher and back in during that time did not help. Everything below happened in October 2026 on one Windows 11 PC, using the launcher installed from the Microsoft Store (Xbox app) and Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3, on an adult account. Times are counted from the moment the setting was saved. My game runs in Korean, so the screenshot shows Korean text. Symptom Singleplayer works. Only the Multiplayer and Minecraft Realms buttons are disabled. Hovering over them shows "Multiplayer is disabled. Please check your Microsoft account settings." The account was not banned. The ban list returned by the Minecraft ...

Closing one program that Task Manager listed at 3% CPU dropped my CPU temperature by about 10°C. The program was OSCApplicationManager.exe , a helper process of LG's OnScreen Control monitor utility, and it had been holding one CPU core at 100% for the roughly 31.5 hours since boot. It was not malware. It was a correctly signed LG binary stuck in a busy loop. Every number below was measured on October 7, 2026 on one Windows 11 PC (AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 16 cores / 32 threads) running OnScreen Control 9.43.0.0. The temperature change is what the monitoring tool on that PC reported. Your numbers will differ, but the checks work the same way. Symptom: a warm CPU on an idle machine I found it while looking for the cause of a slow PC. The slowness turned out to be something else (a hard disk at 100% active time); this was a side discovery. Total CPU usage was a relaxed 10–19%. The LG entries in Task Manager showed 0–3%, so nothing stood out. Why Task Manager says 3% Task Manager...