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alex-spataru · claude · alex-spataru · commit ba204d966319 · 2026-06-08T13:48:35.000-04:00
fix: hide dashboard header in runtime mode; always apply Windows perf boost

Drop the compat-shim opt-out from the Windows performance path so the
HIGH priority boost and MMCSS ingest registration always apply, and hide
the Dashboard pane header when running in runtime mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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diff --git a/app/qml/MainWindow/Panes/Dashboard/DashboardLayout.qml b/app/qml/MainWindow/Panes/Dashboard/DashboardLayout.qml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Widgets.Pane {
 
   title: qsTr("Dashboard")
   icon: "qrc:/icons/panes/dashboard.svg"
-  headerVisible: mainWindow.toolbarBarShown && !isExternalWindow
+  headerVisible: mainWindow.toolbarBarShown && !isExternalWindow && !app.runtimeMode
 
   //
   // Required data inputs
diff --git a/app/rcc/ai/search_index.json b/app/rcc/ai/search_index.json
diff --git a/app/src/Platform/AppPlatform.cpp b/app/src/Platform/AppPlatform.cpp
@@ -266,22 +266,11 @@ static void enableWorkingSetPrivilege()
 }
 
 /**
- * @brief True when the loader launched us under a Windows compatibility shim (it exports
- *        __COMPAT_LAYER): legacy compat scheduling makes the priority/MMCSS boosts starve DWM.
- */
-[[nodiscard]] static bool runningUnderCompatibilityShim()
-{
-  return GetEnvironmentVariableW(L"__COMPAT_LAYER", nullptr, 0) > 0;
-}
-
-/**
- * @brief Opts the process out of EcoQoS throttling and prevents idle sleep; the process-wide
- *        HIGH priority boost is skipped under a compat shim where it crawls the desktop.
+ * @brief Opts the process out of EcoQoS throttling and prevents idle sleep.
  */
 static void enableWindowsPerformanceMode()
 {
-  if (!runningUnderCompatibilityShim())
-    SetPriorityClass(GetCurrentProcess(), HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS);
+  SetPriorityClass(GetCurrentProcess(), HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS);
 
 #  if defined(PROCESS_POWER_THROTTLING_CURRENT_VERSION)
   PROCESS_POWER_THROTTLING_STATE state = {};
@@ -569,9 +558,6 @@ bool lockMemoryResident(const void* ptr, size_t len)
 void registerIngestThreadWithMmcss()
 {
 #if defined(Q_OS_WIN)
-  if (runningUnderCompatibilityShim())
-    return;
-
   static bool registered = false;
   if (registered)
     return;
