As most modern computers now have processors with more than one core, it’s surprising that Windows 7 boots without enabling all of them. Only one is used.

However, it’s very easy to reconfigure matters to get all of your cores to work during the boot as explained in this post from Lockergnome.

Actually, right now the only version of Windows I have on any of my computers is Windows XP which 10 years after its launch still works very well. However, no option to enable more than one processor core during boot is available for this ancient OS.

I might have a chance to try this out on a Windows 7 machine tomorrow. If so, I’ll add an edit to this post to let you know if my boot became faster or not.

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