(01-29-2019, 08:49 PM)Compton Wrote: What I am saying if it's unchecked it's only using 1 cpu core at boot up
What I am thinking is that if you check the box select The maximum CPU cores.
In return it would then used all the CPU cores at boot up
But I can very well be wrong about that
Once Again:
If left unchecked.
The core/processor usage will be grayed-out.
Which by default,
will utilizes all cores/processors and memory during Boot.
These msconfig setting are mostly for debugging purposes, or some other kind of developer tests.
When you want to simulate a system with only one core.
Another reason is to work around buggy installers. Turning the cores off otherwise is not of any other use.
The limiting factor of the boot process is mostly disk I/O anyway.
Install an SSD if you want a blazingly fast boot, or don't run as many processes upon startup.
Setting the core count to it's max, will produce the same effect, as if it were left at the default of unchecked.
However,
this can be handy for troubleshooting and debugging purposes.
To be able to determine if there is a problem with a single processor/core,
or for a programmer to test their code against a single core,
while still running on their multi-processor/core system.
People have reported,
that they swear this has improved performance by selecting all processors.
I just do not see how this could be possible, since they're all used by default anyway.
Changing this setting to use all available cores/processors,
will not speed up Boot time, because all cores are utilized during Boot by default.
Again: Windows 10 uses all available cores by default at boot time.
Changing this msconfig setting. To use all cores is redundant and unnecessary,
which will not make Boot times any faster, despite what some people have claimed/reported.
