Why does the Task Manager think I have two processors?

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The Task Manager - Performance tab, View menu, CPU History item - thinks my
computer has two processors, and will graph their usage separately. But my
computer has only one processor, really!

Anyone know what's going on?
 
Paul said:
The Task Manager - Performance tab, View menu, CPU History item - thinks my
computer has two processors, and will graph their usage separately. But my
computer has only one processor, really!

Anyone know what's going on?
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Do you have a new computer with hyper-threading? If so, that appears as
two processors to the operating system.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
 
Paul Pedersen said:
The Task Manager - Performance tab, View menu, CPU History item - thinks my
computer has two processors, and will graph their usage separately. But my
computer has only one processor, really!

Anyone know what's going on?
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Could it be one of those new multi-threaded Intel jobbies?
 
Ah, that must be it.

Thanks, guys!


Tom Porterfield said:
Do you have a new computer with hyper-threading? If so, that appears as
two processors to the operating system.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
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