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Disable Spectre/Meltdown CPU mitigations

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Sets FeatureSettingsOverride = 3 (and writes the matching mask) under Memory Management, turning off the Spectre/Meltdown speculative-execution mitigations. On older CPUs this can be a sizeable speed-up; on recent CPUs the mitigations are cheap, so the gain is small. EXPERT: this removes protection against a class of side-channel attacks — only sensible on a single-user gaming PC you trust. Reboot required.

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Official documentation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4073119-windows-client-guidance-for-it-pros-to-protect-against-silicon-based-microarchitectural-and-speculative-execution-side-channel-vulnerabilities-35820a8a-ae13-1299-88cc-357f104f5b11

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