diff --git a/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/lib.rs b/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/lib.rs
index ff0d9557..ed5abf5c 100644
--- a/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 // Every `unsafe` block in this file carries a `// SAFETY:` proof; enforce it (unsafe-proof program).
 #![deny(clippy::undocumented_unsafe_blocks)]
+// …and that program only covers a whole `unsafe fn` body once the body needs its own block: in
+// edition 2021 `unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn` is allow-by-default, which exempted this crate's hardest
+// FFI from the deny above — every IOCTL wrapper, and `restore_displays_ccd`, the call the whole
+// Windows teardown path depends on to give the operator their physical panels back.
+#![deny(unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn)]
 
 use anyhow::Result;
 pub use punktfunk_core::Mode;
diff --git a/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/manager.rs b/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/manager.rs
index 70ed2617..428edb64 100644
--- a/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/manager.rs
+++ b/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/manager.rs
@@ -1594,7 +1594,14 @@ impl VirtualDisplayManager {
             // displays.
             inner.group.ccd_exclusive = false;
             if let Some(saved) = inner.group.ccd_saved.take() {
-                restore_displays_ccd(&saved);
+                // SAFETY: `saved` is a `SavedConfig` this manager captured from
+                // `isolate_displays_ccd`/`set_virtual_primary_ccd` on this same box (it can be
+                // produced no other way), so its path+mode arrays are a self-consistent CCD
+                // topology and are passed with their own lengths. `restore_displays_ccd` binds
+                // itself to the input desktop internally (`retry_set_display_config`), which is
+                // the one thing its callers could otherwise get wrong. The `take()` above makes
+                // this the only consumer of that snapshot, so no second restore can race it.
+                unsafe { restore_displays_ccd(&saved) };
                 // EXPERIMENTAL `ddc_power_off` wake: the restore re-activated the physical paths, and
                 // returning signal alone wakes DPMS-off panels on most firmware — the explicit ON is
                 // belt-and-braces for the rest. The brief settle wait lets the re-activated paths show
diff --git a/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/pf_vdisplay.rs b/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/pf_vdisplay.rs
index a32fccbd..36ae1e04 100644
--- a/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/pf_vdisplay.rs
+++ b/crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/windows/pf_vdisplay.rs
@@ -57,20 +57,36 @@ fn next_session_id() -> u64 {
 
 /// One `DeviceIoControl` round trip (METHOD_BUFFERED). `input`/`output` may be empty. Identical to the
 /// SudoVDA backend's wrapper; struct<->bytes conversion happens at the call sites via `bytemuck`.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// `h` must be a live handle to the pf-vdisplay control device — one returned by [`open_device`]
+/// and not yet closed. Every other obligation is discharged inside: the two buffer pointers are
+/// derived from the caller's slices and are passed with exactly those slices' lengths, and the
+/// slices outlive the call.
 unsafe fn ioctl(h: HANDLE, code: u32, input: &[u8], output: &mut [u8]) -> Result<u32> {
     let mut returned = 0u32;
     let inp = (!input.is_empty()).then_some(input.as_ptr() as *const c_void);
     let outp = (!output.is_empty()).then_some(output.as_mut_ptr() as *mut c_void);
-    DeviceIoControl(
-        h,
-        code,
-        inp,
-        input.len() as u32,
-        outp,
-        output.len() as u32,
-        Some(&mut returned),
-        None,
-    )
+    // SAFETY: `h` is a live control-device handle by this fn's contract. `inp`/`outp` are derived
+    // from `input`/`output` and paired with those slices' own lengths, so the kernel reads exactly
+    // `input.len()` initialised bytes and writes at most `output.len()` bytes it is entitled to;
+    // both slices are borrowed for the whole call. `Some(&mut returned)` is a live local. This is
+    // METHOD_BUFFERED, so the kernel copies through its own system buffer rather than retaining
+    // either pointer, and `None` for the OVERLAPPED makes the call synchronous — nothing outlives
+    // the call to alias.
+    unsafe {
+        DeviceIoControl(
+            h,
+            code,
+            inp,
+            input.len() as u32,
+            outp,
+            output.len() as u32,
+            Some(&mut returned),
+            None,
+        )
+    }
     .with_context(|| format!("DeviceIoControl(code={code:#x})"))?;
     Ok(returned)
 }
@@ -194,18 +210,29 @@ fn is_slot_exhaustion_wedge(e: &anyhow::Error) -> bool {
 /// different adapter than the one we duplicate/encode on (the ACCESS_LOST storm). The driver
 /// implements it (`control.rs` → `adapter::set_render_adapter`); callers still tolerate an `Err`
 /// (warn + continue) since the driver reports its real render LUID in the shared header either way.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// `h` must be a live handle to the pf-vdisplay control device — [`ioctl`]'s obligation, and the
+/// only one. `luid` is plain `Copy` data with no validity requirement of its own.
 unsafe fn set_render_adapter(h: HANDLE, luid: LUID) -> Result<()> {
     let req = control::SetRenderAdapterRequest {
         luid_low: luid.LowPart,
         luid_high: luid.HighPart,
     };
     let mut none: [u8; 0] = [];
-    ioctl(
-        h,
-        control::IOCTL_SET_RENDER_ADAPTER,
-        bytemuck::bytes_of(&req),
-        &mut none,
-    )
+    // SAFETY: `h` is a live control-device handle by this fn's contract — the one thing `ioctl`
+    // asks of its caller. The request is a `Pod` struct viewed through `bytemuck::bytes_of`, so
+    // the input slice is exactly its initialised bytes, and the empty output slice matches the
+    // IOCTL's "no output buffer" contract.
+    unsafe {
+        ioctl(
+            h,
+            control::IOCTL_SET_RENDER_ADAPTER,
+            bytemuck::bytes_of(&req),
+            &mut none,
+        )
+    }
     .map(|_| ())
     .context("pf-vdisplay SET_RENDER_ADAPTER")
 }
diff --git a/scripts/wincheck.sh b/scripts/wincheck.sh
index d2fc5f85..cc7b6e5b 100755
--- a/scripts/wincheck.sh
+++ b/scripts/wincheck.sh
@@ -21,13 +21,19 @@
 # Both enter the graph through `punktfunk-core`'s `quic` feature. Stubbing opus with a fake
 # `opus.pc` gets past audiopus but not ring.
 #
-# The whole Windows capture stack uses exactly TWO items from punktfunk-core — `quic::HdrMeta` and
-# `Mode`, both plain data (re-verify with:
-# `grep -rho 'punktfunk_core::[A-Za-z_:]*' crates/pf-capture/src crates/pf-frame/src crates/pf-win-display/src | sort -u`).
-# So this script generates a ~30-line stub core carrying just those, and rustls/ring/opus never
+# The whole Windows capture stack uses exactly FOUR items from punktfunk-core — `quic::HdrMeta`,
+# `Mode`, `CompositorPref` and its `as_str`, all plain data (re-verify with:
+# `grep -rho 'punktfunk_core::[A-Za-z_:]*' crates/pf-{capture,frame,win-display,vdisplay}/src | sort -u`).
+# So this script generates a ~50-line stub core carrying just those, and rustls/ring/opus never
 # enter the graph at all. Every path dep that is NOT a generated member points at the REAL crate by
 # absolute path, so their own relative deps and `version.workspace` inheritance still resolve.
 #
+# pf-encode is stubbed for the same reason and needs the same care: pf-vdisplay's admission gate
+# calls exactly ONE item from it (`can_open_another_session`, admission.rs), but the real crate
+# drags ffmpeg-sys — whose build script wants a Windows FFmpeg tree this box does not have. The
+# stub is a `cfg(windows) -> bool`; if admission ever consults a second encoder fact, mirror it
+# here or the cross-check stops covering that call.
+#
 # Note: `cargo fmt` needs none of this — rustfmt follows `mod`/`#[path]` without evaluating cfg, so
 # it already reaches Windows-only files. Mechanical edits can be normalised with plain `cargo fmt`.
 set -euo pipefail
@@ -40,8 +46,8 @@ TARGET=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
 # dep naming one of these must stay RELATIVE (resolving to the generated member); anything else is
 # rewritten to the real crate. Getting that backwards silently drags the real punktfunk-core — and
 # with it ring and opus — back in through pf-frame, which is the entire thing this avoids.
-MEMBERS_RE='punktfunk-core|pf-frame|pf-win-display|pf-capture'
-REAL_MEMBERS=(pf-frame pf-win-display pf-capture)
+MEMBERS_RE='punktfunk-core|pf-encode|pf-frame|pf-win-display|pf-capture|pf-vdisplay'
+REAL_MEMBERS=(pf-frame pf-win-display pf-capture pf-vdisplay)
 
 cmd="${1:-clippy}"
 [ $# -gt 0 ] && shift
@@ -71,7 +77,7 @@ mkdir -p "$OUT"
   echo '# GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh — do not edit; re-run the script.'
   echo '[workspace]'
   echo 'resolver = "2"'
-  echo 'members = ["punktfunk-core", "pf-frame", "pf-win-display", "pf-capture"]'
+  echo 'members = ["punktfunk-core", "pf-encode", "pf-frame", "pf-win-display", "pf-capture", "pf-vdisplay"]'
   echo
   echo '[workspace.package]'
   sed -n '/^\[workspace\.package\]/,/^$/p' "$REPO/Cargo.toml" | sed '1d;/^$/d'
@@ -108,6 +114,30 @@ pub struct Mode {
     pub refresh_hz: u32,
 }
 
+/// Mirrors `punktfunk_core::CompositorPref` (config.rs). pf-vdisplay matches on every variant and
+/// calls `as_str`, so both the variant set and the strings must stay in step with the real enum.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
+pub enum CompositorPref {
+    #[default]
+    Auto,
+    Kwin,
+    Wlroots,
+    Mutter,
+    Gamescope,
+}
+
+impl CompositorPref {
+    pub fn as_str(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            CompositorPref::Auto => "auto",
+            CompositorPref::Kwin => "kwin",
+            CompositorPref::Wlroots => "wlroots",
+            CompositorPref::Mutter => "mutter",
+            CompositorPref::Gamescope => "gamescope",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 pub mod quic {
     /// Mirrors `punktfunk_core::quic::HdrMeta`.
     #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
@@ -122,6 +152,28 @@ pub mod quic {
 }
 EOF
 
+mkdir -p "$OUT/pf-encode/src"
+cat > "$OUT/pf-encode/Cargo.toml" <<'EOF'
+# GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh — a STUB, not the real crate.
+[package]
+name = "pf-encode"
+version.workspace = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version.workspace = true
+EOF
+
+cat > "$OUT/pf-encode/src/lib.rs" <<'EOF'
+//! GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh — a STUB of pf-encode carrying only the one item pf-vdisplay's
+//! admission gate uses. The real crate pulls ffmpeg-sys, whose build script needs a Windows FFmpeg
+//! tree; nothing in the display path needs the encoder itself, only this predicate.
+
+/// Mirrors `pf_encode::can_open_another_session` (lib.rs, `#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]`).
+#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+pub fn can_open_another_session() -> bool {
+    true
+}
+EOF
+
 for name in "${REAL_MEMBERS[@]}"; do
   mkdir -p "$OUT/$name"
   # Park the member paths behind a sentinel first: a plain self-substitution would be a no-op and