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How do you manually set the affinities?(XP 32)Thanks!Okay there are a few ways to do this, but I will give the easiest way to do this.First you can either right click on the task bar and click on the task manager, or crtl>alt>delete, to bring up the task manager, then when the task manager comes up you make sure the processes tab is open, then, right click on the process you want to set an affinity on, and on the list click the set affinity, if it isn't an internal system function, it will bring up a list of processors for affinity, if you have a dual core it should have 2 processors checked, meaning it is running things through both cores, you can choose which core to run that program through, and if you use another program you use a lot while the first one is running, then you can click on it and set it for the other core, this way they both run through the different cores seperately, that should speed up some of th multitasking, this works well on programs not yet designed to run with multicore processors, the newer programs that are out that are designed to run with multicore processors, will automatically sense what is running where and compensate for you automatically. I gave this way to set the affinity as it is easiest for most to do, the other ways I know involve getting into windows, and if you don't know what you are doing in there it can make a mess of windows and cause more issues than it helps.I hope this helps you on how to set the affinities on the programs, in the task manager they are processes of the programs you use, but are the same, you need to know what program the process is tied to. Usually the process has the same name as the program .exe, but not always, most times it will have something that does identify it to the program still, although some processes don't. I hope this helps anyone that wants to see if it helpes them, if it doesn't then remember what the affinity was set for the process, and set it back to that setting. All I can say is it helps me on the programs I have that aren't made to run with multiprocessors. I hope it helps all others as well.