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Windows 11 Still Slows Your CPU To Block A 2018 Security Flaw

Windows 11 and Windows 10 both still run default mitigations against the 2018 Spectre vulnerability, a protection that costs some CPU performance. Disabling it via a registry edit is possible but carries real security risk, especially on older chips.

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