Changed number of processors in msconfig

Hi , I went into the msconfig menu and selected Boot-Advanced and proceeded to turn the number of processors down to 7 from 8 and then decided that I was a genius and made boot settings permanent and now cant change it back. What effect will this have on my PC and should I change it back and how?? Thank you.

Those settings are only for testing and not setting number of processor cores. Your number of processor cores is fixed in Task manager on Performance tab.

This video explains what must be done to undo making boot changes permanent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whv2blUO-8c


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Hi Greg

Thank you for your reply unfortunately even with the video and all when I go to task manager and go to select affinity it only shows that I have 7 cores not 8. Would you happen to know why??

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See if this helps: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3126481/...
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Sorry I said cores not processors sorry

yeah it says that i only have 7 "logical processors" not 8

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The problem may be a setting in your BIOS.
Start the system and go to the BIOS settings.
Check for any settings such as: "Enable all processors"
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Never mind thankyou for your suggestion but i fiddled around with some settings and it resolved itself

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Thanks for the update Adil
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