How to Create a Shortcut to Run an Application with a Set CPU Affinity in Windows
Processor affinity or CPU Pinning enables the binding and un-binding of a process or thread to a physical CPU or a range of CPUs, so that the process or thread in question will run only on the CPU or range of CPUs in question, rather than being able to run on any CPU
By default, Windows runs an application on all available cores of the processor. If you have a multi-core processor, then this tutorial will show you how to set the processor affinity of an application to control which core(s) of the processor the application will run on.
If the application and CPU supports Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) or HyperThreading (HT), then Windows will...