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Fix: Fix a issue that change always on top settings won't take effect immediately (#45994)

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## Summary of the Pull Request
Fix #45993

Always on top have a window proc thread that will reload the settings
once file watcher trigger a reload of settings.
And always on top has a worker thread to read the settings at the same
time.
So it may happen worker thread will read the stale setting, as a result,
user change settings, and try to invoke always on top, as if nothing has
changed.
As the issue's recording shows.

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The setting take effect once it's changed:


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Kai Tao committed
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Parent: 3d69785
Committed by GitHub <[email protected]> on 3/9/2026, 3:25:40 AM