Computer trivia

Do you know of the start utility on Windows? Well, it is not Start button, but the start utility. All the versions of Windows a command line utility called ’start’ which can be used to launch programs on a specified CPU with a specified property. Suppose you wanted to start the ‘Calculator’ program on the third CPU with a low priority, the following is the syntax.

start /affinity 3 /low calc.exe

 Here ‘3′ represents the processor number on which the program must be run and should be the number of the processor in Hex format.

‘low’ represents the priority to be given to this program and can have one of the following values

- Low

- Normal

- High

- Realtime

- Above Normal

- Below Normal

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