Vista - Set Affinity

Is there a way to "Set Affinity" besides using Task manager, perhaps making
the setting permanent for certain programs?


Thanks,

I don't believe so, without using a third party application to do it. I
thought there used to be, but I couldn't dig it up. I've found a few
programs that do it automatically for you, but they didn't work under Vista
apparently.

I'd like to know the definitive answer to this as well, though.

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"Norbert" <trash01NoSpam@mindvacant.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to "Set Affinity" besides using Task manager, perhaps
> making the setting permanent for certain programs?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>

Yeah,

I use an online backup service that cycles through it's routines about every
2 hrs. If I remember, I set "affinity", but usually I forget until I see
both cores in the "red".

It'd be nice to just "set it & forget it".

I found this & am playing around with it now. Seems to work.

Click the "download" link below the 1st screenshot.

http://forums.tweakguides.com/showthread.php?t=5642

Just a quick note here:

For some reason the .BAT file that is supposed to copy madCHook.dll to
\system32 didn't do the job. \

Kept getting a "missing file" error.

Copying manually eliminated the problem, and as processes I chose to
customize with SetAffinity start they're all on the cores I assigned.

Pretty good!

Norbert wrote:

> Just a quick note here:
>
> For some reason the .BAT file that is supposed to copy madCHook.dll to
> \system32 didn't do the job. \
>
> Kept getting a "missing file" error.
>
> Copying manually eliminated the problem, and as processes I chose to
> customize with SetAffinity start they're all on the cores I assigned.

So you are telling us MS still is not capable of distributing load across
multiple cores and even Vista still needs user intervention and 3rd party
apps to help out?

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That's not what we're saying at all.

Sometimes a person wants a specific process or app to run on a specific
core, and that's what we're talking about here.

Norbert wrote:

> That's not what we're saying at all.
>
> Sometimes a person wants a specific process or app to run on a specific
> core, and that's what we're talking about here.

And generally the only reason to want that is if the OS is not putting the
process on the appropriate core in the first place...

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even when i try to set the affinity through task manager it will not let me
do itand sais access has been denied

"Stephan Rose" wrote:

> Norbert wrote:
>
> > That's not what we're saying at all.
> >
> > Sometimes a person wants a specific process or app to run on a specific
> > core, and that's what we're talking about here.
>
> And generally the only reason to want that is if the OS is not putting the
> process on the appropriate core in the first place...
>
> --
> Stephan
> 2003 Yamaha R6
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