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Disable Game Bar background recording (ring buffer)

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Sets HistoricalCaptureEnabled = 0, turning off the Game Bar's 'record the last X minutes' background ring buffer. That buffer continuously re-encodes gameplay in the background, spending GPU encoder time and RAM even when you never save a clip. Disabling reclaims both. Safe and reversible.

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