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Route DWM input through I/O completion ports (lower latency)

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Sets DwmInputUsesIoCompletionPort = 1 under SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm. Switches the desktop compositor's input pump from a message-queue model to a kernel I/O completion port. The IOCP path delivers mouse + keyboard wake-ups with less context switching and lower wakeup-to-handler latency — a real reduction in the cursor-to-frame delay on desktop and in borderless games. Safe and reversible.

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Official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset/nf-ioapiset-createiocompletionport

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