ThreadPilot 1.7.0: gaming tweaks, process controls, and signing readiness

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Summary

ThreadPilot 1.7.0 expands Windows gaming and device tuning, adds persistent per-process resource controls, improves support access, and prepares the project for trusted Authenticode signing.

Gaming and system tweaks

• Adds Game Mode, Core Parking, supported CPU C-State behavior, USB selective suspend, pointer precision, Ethernet power-saving properties, interrupt moderation, and supported GPU MSI Mode controls.
• Opens the native Windows pages for Memory Integrity, HAGS, and windowed-game optimizations, leaving security-sensitive choices to the user.
• Backs up supported device-driver values before changing them and restores them when a tweak is disabled.

Per-process controls

• Adds memory priority and I/O priority controls with persistent-rule support.
• Replaces the old idle-server action with a Windows power request that prevents system sleep only while the selected process is running and releases automatically.

Power-plan distribution

The 89 bundled third-party .pow files were removed from the repository and all release packaging paths. Although they were publicly downloadable, their per-file licenses and redistribution permissions could not be verified. Shipping them would conflict with the SignPath Foundation requirement that every distributed component have clear open-source redistribution rights.

This change does not delete user data or reduce the import feature:

• power plans already imported into Windows remain installed and active;
• upgrades preserve .pow files left by previous ThreadPilot versions;
• manual .pow import remains available;
• More plans? opens the community Discord only after an explicit click, without automatic downloads.

Support, localization, and release readiness

• Adds Discord links to Power Plans and Settings plus a direct GitHub Issues action.
• Localizes every new control and support action in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.
• Updates version metadata, installer/package definitions, changelog, release notes, privacy documentation, licensing audit, and code-signing policy for 1.7.0.
• Keeps the automated build, test, packaging, checksum, SBOM, and publishing workflow intact; SignPath-specific integration will follow after project approval.

Compatibility and safety

• Existing persistent rules remain compatible and all new options default to off.
• Ethernet and GPU controls change only properties exposed by the installed driver and require administrator privileges.
• Memory Integrity remains controlled by the user in Windows Security.
• Some driver, GPU, and Windows graphics changes can require a restart.

Validation

• 701/701 automated Release tests passed, including XAML compilation and localization coverage for all seven languages.
• Final portable and installer artifacts contain zero .pow files.
• Windows 11 Hyper-V gate passed portable launch, clean install, normal launch, tweak apply/restore, upgrade, and uninstall checks with zero ThreadPilot application errors.
• A real 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 installer upgrade preserved all 89 legacy .pow files byte-for-byte and did not change the active Windows power plan.

Signing status

Artifacts remain unsigned while the SignPath Foundation application is pending. The SignPath-specific workflow and secrets will be configured and validated separately after approval.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 26.82584% with 521 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
Services/SystemTweaksService.cs	2.97%	260 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
Services/ProcessMemoryPriorityService.cs	25.33%	49 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️
Services/ProcessPowerRequestService.cs	14.06%	52 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
ViewModels/ProcessViewModel.Behaviors.partial.cs	43.29%	53 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
Services/PersistentRulesEngine.cs	34.14%	23 Missing and 4 partials ⚠️
ViewModels/SettingsViewModel.cs	38.46%	14 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
...atforms/Windows/IProcessMemoryPriorityNativeApi.cs	0.00%	14 Missing ⚠️
ViewModels/SystemTweaksViewModel.cs	77.27%	8 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
ViewModels/SelectedProcessSummaryViewModel.cs	70.83%	5 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
ViewModels/BaseViewModel.cs	0.00%	6 Missing ⚠️
... and 7 more

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