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, ...

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 ...

I find that for CPU-intensive tasks such as the Copernic Desktop Search indexer, better overall system behavior is obtainable by setting the CPU Affinity to one or other of the CPUs, as demonstrated ...