Affinity Problems

bundokbundok
edited January 2006 in Science & Tech
I have a program that does not like my dual core AMD processor. It used to be that everytime I would load it up, I would have to alt-tab back to the desktop, find the process in Task Manager and then set the affinity to only one of the cores. Now however, the program won't let me alt-tab permanently to windows, it keeps overriding and I can't access Task Manager when the program is running. Is there a way to permanently set the affinity for the program so that I don't have to find a workaround?

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    Can you minimize the program, then use Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to task manager???? Sorry, I do not know the registry enough to set up a static affinity key as XP likes to do this dynamically itself. Thus it uses DYN_Keys for this.
  • bundokbundok
    edited January 2006
    Straight_Man wrote:
    Can you minimize the program, then use Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to task manager???? Sorry, I do not know the registry enough to set up a static affinity key as XP likes to do this dynamically itself. Thus it uses DYN_Keys for this.

    I have tried via the alt-tab method (it doesn't have an in program minimize button) but it minimizes for less than a second and then automatically maximizes again. Leaving no possibility for using any other in windows program.

    Having said that, I found a solution to the problem. Using the program imagecfg and placing it in the system32 folder in the windows directory. I accessed the program through the cmd prompt and then used the following sytax

    imagecfg -u 0x1 "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\programname.exe" then
    imagecfg -a 0x1 "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\programname.exe"

    and now the program works perfectly.
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