With multicore processors so popular today. You may want to get Vista using the processors the way you want. There times when you run a program and you want it fixed to just a single processor, because running it on a both processors on your dual core system just totally boggs the system down... readon..

Ok how do we go about doing this... I have Vmware so how I get VMware to stick to 1 processor on start up is to just simply write a batch file... and put this in

 CD "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation"
start /AFFINITY 2 vmware.exe

The /AFFINITY 2 tells vista to load the process on the second processor, to load it on the first processor use /AFFINITY 1. So this way everytime you use the batch file or shortcut it will make the program stick to the selected processor. Simple but it works.

The start command also has a load of other switches such as process priority (e.g. /REALTIME) to make sure your program gets more of the CPU slice.

This tip gets five cool smilies  s simple and elegant solution... nothing to buy just fixes your application to a single processor everytime.

Comments (5)

	1. 05-09-2008 13:11
	useless on VMware vmware.exe is only the GUI.  The machines will run in a seperate program "vmware-vmx.exe", which will not inherit the GUIs affinity... Guest Report

Patrick

	2. 27-06-2008 09:10
	Super Duper Tool to set affinity http://www.reviewingit.com/index.php/content/view/74/1/Processor Lasso    Might want to check out this free tool http://www.reviewingit.com Guest Report

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	3. 24-12-2007 02:25
	Help Could someone please tell me how to apply the affinity 1 to Call of Duty 2. I have Windows Vista and can NOT play my game with the sound.I was told if I did this it would work. Guest Report

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	4. 12-09-2007 19:36
	Help Nice tool ! Guest Report

Rob

	5. 27-07-2007 14:55
	Help First class tip. Very easy to do, and very effective. Particularly useful for those old programs which don't like running on more than one core. Guest Report

Phil

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