Windows 11. How do I allocate more CPU time to an application

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Windows 11. How do I allocate more CPU time to an application

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Hi,

I am trying to remove duplicate files from several backups using AIDup.

So far I have removed 300,000 files clearing up over 500GB of data.

I want to speed up the application that identifies the duplicates.

I am using a new i7 1200HX laptop with a dedicated GPU, 16GB Ram and 1TB SSD.

I have disabled all the background apps that I know about, including the anti virus amd VPN.

I have disabled the usual apps and features that slows down windows .

The CPU chugs along at a geriatric 5%, only 4% is being used by the duplicate finder App. The laptop is using 6GB of RAM and 2% disk transfer rate.

I have tried to set the priority to high and then real time without any improvement to speak of.

I want the the app to use 70 or 80% of tbe CPU, otherwise having a brand new laptop is pretty much pointless.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1

A user cannot make an application do it. The application's own code has to do multi threading and use it. More code threads created equals more CPU usage. Of course, it cannot use more than it can use. So even then it may or may not have high CPU use. It could be limited by CPU speed, disk speed, or whatever.

The only real choice you have is to try alternative applications be it GUI ones or command line ones and see if you can find one that performs faster.

Windows own applications are often still in the past that way. Eg notepad has horrible opening performance of large documents that notepad++ opens very quickly. Although, I think it has improved a bit in the past year or so but I didn't do any real tests to see for sure.

You actually should never use the priority setting btw.

Answer 2

Hi, I'm Anvar, I'd be glad to help you today on this

CPU Power and priority can be set using task manager in windows 10/11

To allocate more CPU to a program

CPU core usage configuration.

Press the “Ctrl”, “Shift” and “Esc” keys on your keyboard simultaneously to open the Task Manager.

Click on the “Processes” tab, then right-click the program for which you want to change CPU core usage and click “Set Affinity” from the pop-up menu.

To prioritize programs

Press Alt + Ctrl + Del and select Task Manager.

Go to Processes.

Right-click a process whose priority is to be changed and click Go to Details.

Now right click on that .exe process and go to Set Priority and select a desired option.

How do I give a program more processing power?

Launch Task Manager (right-click on the start bar and select Task Manager)

Click on the Processes tab.

Right click on the required process and select “Set priority”

You can then select a different priority.

Close the Task Manager.

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Answer 3

"never use the priority setting btw"

I know, but I was really really really desperate :(

Thank you for the explanation. It was very helpful.

The bottom line is that for legacy applications (or those that are not tuned) a faster processor is needed.

What is the fastest processor I can get hold of to run windows applications that have not been tuned to use multiple threads?

Thank you

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