Always On Top - Reading its config file (settings.json) way too often

[BoffinBrain]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.87.1

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

Always on Top

Steps to reproduce

Enable the Always On Top feature. Monitor its activity using Process Monitor or a similar tool.

✔️ Expected Behavior

The tool should load its settings file once and keep its config in memory (it's tiny).

If any other PowerToy tools exhibit the same behaviour then they could also benefit from such a change.

❌ Actual Behavior

The program reads its settings.json file every single time window focus changes, which is very inefficient.

In the interests of improving SSD performance and longevity, I'll be disabling this feature for now, just like I disable the Indexing service.

Other Software

No response

[davidegiacometti]

Hi @BoffinBrain

Which version of PowerToys are you using?
This is supposed to be fixed in 0.78 release: #28744 (comment)

Also look at #28744 (comment) for more context on why PowerToys was doing this.

EDIT: oh, my bad. This is a different issue.

/needinfo