Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this!
After the last update am seeing a weird new bar in my upper left corner.
It shows my time/Playtime/FPS. It’s over my HP bar which is annoying.
It only shows up in WoW and no another games at all.
Anyone els have this? If so how do i turn this off?
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OP: That looks like it is coming from either an addon or a 3rd party overlay of some kind. It’s certainly not in the standard UI
As above, probably an AddOn, do you have a UI type AddOn?
Can you Right-Click on the bar and get any menu etc which might give a clue to its origin?
Looks like it could be an overlay to me rather than an addon, but I could be wrong. You installed Overwolf or anything like it recently? Does it happen in other games?
I agree it does look like an overlay, but as he mentioned it’s only in Wow I was not so sure, so I suggested it could be either 
Addon or some form of location thing I am guessing? Like some countries only allow you to play for X amount of minutes.
Check your addons and see if any have updated last cpl of days, obviously concentrating on UI addons like Elvui or Bartender.
Actually, my elvui did update yesterday, so if you use that, then maybe theres the cause?
It’s Razer Cortex
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Most definitely this.
Just in case anyone else needs the solution to turn it off…
Trust Razer to sneak some weird useless garbage like this in haha.
I have a Razer Blade and the best thing I ever did was remove Windows. That thing is a SICK Linux machine precisely because it doesn’t use Razer’s software lmao. OpenRGB to control the rainbowfarting and otherwise it just works.
I guess removing their software on the Windows side is good too idk.
I’m using a Razer mouse and I need some of the software to set up the many buttons and check the battery status since it’s wireless, so I kind have to keep it. But it’s never really bothered me. I was just caught bit off guard with the new widget in the corner of my screen, but it didn’t take very long to figure out what it is and turn it off.
It also created it’s own power plan for some reason and kept auto switching to it by itself, and caused my CPU fans to randomly go absolutely bonkers, so I had to delete the power plan.
But other than that it doesn’t really bother me running on the background.
So you cite two absolutely bonkers things that should never be done by default as things that bother you and otherwise it doesn’t bother you. I can respect patience with poor features when you want good stuff as well. I mean for Heaven’s sake I play WoW…
Whenever I buy a laptop usually the first thing I do is drop a nuke on the SSD and reinstall Windows or Linux to get rid of the bloat and ads and other things. The only exception to this is when I bought a Mac because literally no matter what it’s gonna have Apple’s software, so…
In the case of Razer they put a backup image on the disk which I of course nuked as well.
On Logitech mice you’ve got memory built into the mouse. No need to install anything at all - the program that sets it up is portable with no installer. Of course they really want you to get their weird driver program but I just ignore it. And user Piper because I’m not on Windows. 
Funniest part? Razer’s keyboard and mice often have this too, and you can get at it with OpenRGB and OpenRazer on the Linux side and I think it’s out for Windows as well idk, but Razer’s own programs can’t find it and so you continue to get rainbowvomit without their drivers.
Anyway, I’m glad you found the solution, I’m just chatting at this point.
I remember that power plan from when I briefly tried the stock Windows on that laptop and iirc it’s some kind of boost thing that makes the GPU go absolutely and completely ham to the point where everything overheats unless the fan is allowed to run at 6 billion RPM.
Well, it bothered me for the few seconds it took to get rid of, if that’s how you prefer me saying it. I find the power plan thing a little sus of course, it shouldn’t ever touch that without asking me, but I just deleted the plan, which fixed it.
With the widget, I don’t think that’s a bonkers thing at all. It just turned up after an update, I didn’t want it there, I turned it off, done.
Well I have a desktop that I built myself so any software I have was installed by me manually.
I still use G hub because I kinda like it. I’ve had no issues besides a single one, and that was that GTA 5 would stay as “playing” on Steam after I quit the game, and apparently that’s because of G hub. But that’s such a minor thing I wouldn’t even consider it an issue.
And before you ask, yes, I use different mice for different purposes.
I’m not big into flashy RGB so I have it turned off on my mouse, both of them. Saving the battery life that way is a plus. Any software I have for them is purely for the functionality. For example my Corsair keyboard works fine out of the box and I don’t need their software for anything, so I don’t have it installed.
I don’t think the Razer power plan was actually the culprit with the fans. Other power plans do it as well. With an AMD CPU I have the AMD Ryzen Balance and AMD Ryzen High Performance as options, and so far the only power plan that doesn’t cause the CPU fan to do weird stuff is the Ryzen High Performance. With other plans, the fan just ramps up and down over and over, and turns to max RPM when I do even the smallest task.
When I looked it up I found there’s apparently a know bug between the cooler and the mobo I have which causes the fan to do funny stuff.
Tnx alot for this info it really helped
Is razer Cortex you can turn it off with shortcut ctrl+alt+B
Finally, thanks so much I was desperate to turn off that, couldn’t find it
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