i just got my new system up and running, i saw the macs hacks episode where he showed you can make windows boot faster by changing the cores it starts with, so i looked and it said 1 so i changed it to 2, now on cpuz it says 2 cores 2 threads and im frieking out man!!!!!!. i need to know how i can change it or if its just showeing 2 cores because only 2 are active THANK YOU WHOEVER CAN HELP ME
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I didn't write this but found it after a brief google search
"Windows 7 uses what's available on the box ... out of the box. You should not twiddle around with the boot process except when you know what you are doing, otherwise things will become slower / more unstable, etc.
And you should not believe what you read on the Internet.
That said: To tell Windows 7 to NOT use of all the cores that are available is mostly for debugging purposes or some kind of developer tests when you want to simulate a system with only one core. Another reason is to work around buggy installers. Turning the cores off otherwise is not of any other use, the limiting factor of the boot process is mostly disk I/O anyway nowadays (so, buy a SSD when you want a blazingly fast boot .. or don't run that many processes upon startup -> less disk I/O as well).
Again: Windows 7 uses all available cores at boot time. The snippet you read on the Internet is most likely the super-über-hack to go into MSConfig and then check the Number of processors box and then click the number of cores you want Windows 7 to use. People writing about 'how to speed up the boot process' did not understand the what that checkbox is used for:
Number of processors. Limits the number of processors used on a multiprocessor system. If the check box is selected, the system boots using only the number of processors in the drop-down list.
It LIMITS (as in 'puts an upper limit of used cores') the boot process to take only UP TO processors and (this is also important) later on provide only that amount of processors for the OS. If you select one there you will run a system with only one processor."
Source: http://superuser.com/questions/430886/what-is-the-effect-of-booting-with-additional-cores
EDIT: you should not post this kid of question in this thread instead post it
here: https://teksyndicate.com/forum/windows
because you read the rules
here: https://teksyndicate.com/forum/inboxexe/inboxexe-thread-rules/148182
i really appreciate the reply but shortly after i posted this i figured it out, i just had to click the box that disables you from choosing the cores you want to use, but thanks regardless!