"Steve Behman" <SteveBehman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Every process that I have examined in task manager has its affinity set
> only
> CPU 0 and, since I have never (knowingly) altered the default behavior,
> this
> might contradict your assertion.
>
> I think I would be happy if the affinity of all processes were set to
> both
> processors. This leaves me with two questions:
> How can it be accomplished (i.e. restoring the default behavior)?
> Is there a downside to having done this?
>
> It would also be nice to know how the default behavior was altered so
> that,
> in the future, I can avoid it happening again.
>
>
>
There's something not quite right there. On my desktop with a Core 2 Duo,
and my laptop with an HT P4, all applications I run have affinity with both
CPU1 and CPU2. When you look at Computer in Device Manager does
it say, 'ACPI Multiprocessor PC'?