beos53 opened this issue on May 20, 2010 ยท 2 posts
Khai-J-Bach posted Thu, 20 May 2010 at 6:46 PM
sorry... it's no good.
to quote
"Make Vista Use Multiple Cores to Speed Up Boot Time This bogus tip made the rounds recently and almost everybody got caught including Lifehacker and big brother site Gizmodo... although commenters called it out quickly on both sides, and the editors updated the posts. (That's yet another reason to always participate in the comments here.) According to this tip, you were supposed to use MS Config to modify the "Number of processors" drop-down on the Boot tab. The problem is that this setting is only used for troubleshooting and debugging, to be able to determine if there is a problem with a single processor, or for a programmer to test their code against a single core while running on a multi-core system. Windows will use all your processors by default without this setting."
http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-common-windows-performance-tweaking-myths