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Re: Have you tried changing affinity?

Here is what I have been using for the past year in my dell dual core:
Sysinternals.com Process Explorer (find it with google..free dl)
It allows you to change priority and affinity for all processes, including those the windows task manager will not let you modify...winlogon.exe smss.exe, services.exe, etc...

It takes a long time, so adding these to any batch fiile (which I don't have yet) would be a big time saver. I select everything other than foobar and change the priority to IDLE and gave affinity for only one processor. I'm not sure yet if one sounds better over the other, but I was using 1. Then, I set foobar to priority=realtime and use both processors.
Now that we have all these improvements to make by avoiding the windows explorer, it may be time for me to revisit which settings sound best..but that's what I was doing in the past.
I am looing forward to removing windows explorer from the chain to see how that sounds.

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