Okay, you're the proud new owner of a new desktop or laptop computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista. Whether you realize it or not, it's more than likely to sport a spritely multi-core processor, ...

Changing the processor affinity for programs in Windows lets you free up CPU resources being used by lighter processes, so that they can be allocated to more important and intensive programs. Changing ...

In simple terms, CPU utilization is the current percentage of CPU resources consumed by all programs. If you notice that some programs are using more of your CPU cores and hogging system resources, ...

On a dual-core processor, you can entirely disable the second core through the System Configuration menu or partially disable it using processor affinity options. System Configuration lets you set how ...