msconfig: Number of Processors setting

There's no real reason for you to change this boot setting. Windows provides it for HW debugging, and some versions of Windows 2000 had different licensing requirements if you had multiple CPU's. IT admins would disable the extra CPU's so their software licenses would work.

Today there is no need to tamper with the defaults. Unless you enjoy breaking Windows performance.

BCDEdit /set – Processors and APICs
Code: 
bcdedit /set {current} numproc N
 
You modify the current power scheme, and export the plan. This is no different than the question you asked on ElevenForum.
Different tool, same idea.
 
I've got posts on this forum explaining advanced power plan tweaking. The high performance power plan already disables core parking, and I've shown that Bitsum isn't relevant on newer builds, with at least 21H2 or later, and possibly before that. Also, like I explained thoroughly in the polishing post I made for you, the idea of "tweak it just in case" is a fallacy that leads to all sorts of operator error and is why many people struggle with creating a usable image and constantly ask for help, because they have an overzealous number of extraneous tweaks like this thread's subject.

Let me frame it a different way in hopes of getting through to more lurkers too...If increasing the performance (read as speed) of the operating system and software running on it is the primary goal, then the most important aspects to investigate are component removals and vetted registry tweaks. Until those have been exhaustively researched and tested, it's an inefficient use of time to focus on other subjects, such as this thread, which is totally pointless for that goal. In other words, time can be better spent elsewhere.
 
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trial and error is the best way to find out what works, what doesnt work and what breaks stuff.
im still working with things i learned on XP and nLite.
 
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Hellbovine garlin
to be frank, I suspected that -most probably- turning this setting on would give placebo effect, and it might worsen performance (in worst case scenario)....But I asked anyway (as with many similar questions on this site and on elevenforum) because I like hearing the take of you seniors on the subjects I ask about (which many are derived from misinformation from the internet) + I get to learn answers to what I asked about and discover new things and ways of using commands to add to my humble knowledge...you and Garlin helped me so many times and I appreciate it very much....so please bear with me and my noobish questions :)
 
You can't simply dismiss every power plan change as a placebo.

The real problem is it's extremely difficult to visualize all the power plan settings together, in one view, without using a 3rd-party tool. By default, Windows doesn't reveal all possible settings from the Power Options control panel. While you can modify reg keys to unhide more settings, there are more config options not visible to the user.

Dumping a plan out using powercfg is no better, the output has too much empty formatting, and you can't compare any two plans side by side.

powercfg is ideal if you're making a limited number of changes. For example:
- disabling hibernation​
- changing a laptop's default behavior when you close the lid​
- changing a display monitor's timeout​
- changing a disk's timeout before spinning down​

Instead, you need a tool like PowerPlanExplorer to understand what each of the possible settings are, and how they're configured by the default plans (Power Saver, Balanced, High Performance, Ultimate).

Beyond the power plan settings, there are more settings defined by the UEFI-managed power modes for a CPU. Those are often highly specific to given CPU vendor & product family. Whereas the power plans are more generic, and will apply to any PC.
 
QuickCPU also has a Power Plans configuration section that has many more options to configure power plans, like importing exporting duplicating renaming cloning changing plan names and descriptions. i use it alongside MBK1969s PPE. tip - once it is installed it can be copied and run portable.
 
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