Power profiles, core parking, fan curves, startup entries, and the switches
Microsoft moved six menus deep. Wyxen puts them on one screen, tells you what
each one actually changes, and puts every one of them back.
How eagerly the CPU clocks above its base frequency.
Changes staged4 writes
Every line is real. Copy one and run it yourself.
Wyxen writes these, logs them, and can put every one of them back.
Version
1.4.2
Released
2026-08-17
Requires
Windows 10 22H2 x64 or Windows 11
Downloads
6
Or install from PowerShell
$irm https://get.wyxen.app | iex
The app
One window, every setting.
Each control says what it does before you touch it, and shows what it changed after.
Performance
Pick how the machine should behave and Wyxen sets the dozen things underneath that decide it.
› Silent · Balanced · Performance profiles
› Core parking and processor performance floors
› Boost mode, per profile
› Idle promote and demote thresholds
Fans and thermals
Draw the curve, watch the trace. Package and GPU history is plotted over time, so you can see whether a curve is actually holding.
› Point-and-drag fan curves
› Live package and GPU traces
› Per-profile curves
Cleanup
Remove the preinstalled apps and background services you never asked for, one at a time and with a plain description of each.
› Preinstalled apps
› Optional features
› Scheduled telemetry tasks
Startup
Everything that launches with Windows in one list, including the entries Task Manager does not show you.
› Registry Run keys
› Scheduled tasks
› Startup folder
› Measured boot impact
Monitoring
Clocks, temperatures, load and draw in the tray. One click for the full readout, no second app running.
› Tray readout
› Per-core clocks
› Package power
Trust
It's your registry. Here's the receipt.
Wyxen runs elevated and edits system state. That is a lot to ask of a program you
downloaded five minutes ago, so here is exactly what it does and how to check the
build you got.
Every change is logged
Each toggle writes a line to a local log: what it read, what it wrote, when. Open it any time.
A restore point first
Wyxen creates one before its first write of a session. If something goes sideways, roll the machine back.
Reversible by default
Anything Wyxen can turn on it can turn off. Where Windows makes that impossible, the control says so before you use it.
No accounts, no telemetry, no bundles
The installer contains one program. It ships no partner offers, and using the app requires no sign-in.
Everywhere it writes
The complete set of surfaces Wyxen can modify. Nothing outside this list.
Run
Get-FileHash on the installer and compare. If it does not match, do not run it. The installer
then verifies the application it downloads against its own published checksum
before running it.
Checksum published with the next signed release.
Requirements
Windows 11, 64-bit
Scanned
On each release
Download
Free, and it stays free.
You download a small installer. It fetches the current build of Wyxen, puts it in
your Start menu, and keeps it updated from then on. A link you saved months ago
still installs today's version.
Wyxen needs administrator rights, because power settings and startup entries are
machine-wide. It asks once, at launch, and never runs a service in the background.
Questions
The ones worth asking.
Will this break my computer?
It can change how your machine behaves, which is the point, and Wyxen creates a restore point before its first write of each session. Every control is reversible unless the control itself says otherwise, and it says so before you use it, not after.
Why does it need administrator rights?
Power plans, startup entries, services and provisioned apps are machine-wide state. Windows will not let a normal process touch them. Wyxen asks for elevation once at launch and does not install a background service or a driver.
Is it open source?
Not today. Instead of asking you to take that on faith, Wyxen publishes the SHA256 of every release, a VirusTotal report, the full list of registry and system surfaces it can write to, and a local log of every change it makes on your machine.
Windows blocked the installer. Now what?
That is SmartScreen reacting to a publisher it has not seen often, not to anything found in the file. Compare the SHA256 in the Trust section against Get-FileHash on your download before you continue. If they match, the file is the one we published.
Why does the download need to fetch more after I run it?
What you download is a small installer, not the whole program. It pulls the current build at install time, so a link you saved months ago still gives you today's version, and updates afterwards replace only what changed instead of a fresh 76 MB every time.
Does it work on Windows 10?
It targets Windows 11. Several of the controls read and write state that behaves differently on 10, and testing against an OS Microsoft has stopped supporting is not a good use of the time.
How do I undo everything?
Each screen has a reset that restores the Windows defaults for that screen. Uninstalling Wyxen does not revert your changes, deliberately, because reverting settings you chose on purpose during an uninstall would be a surprise. Reset first, then uninstall.
Does it collect anything about me?
The app sends one anonymous ping on first launch with a random identifier and the version number, so we can tell how many downloads become working installs. No hardware fingerprint, no usage tracking, and it can be turned off in settings.
What is the account system for?
Nothing yet, and Wyxen does not require one. It exists so that syncing your profiles across machines can be built later without a migration. The app works fully signed out and always will.