How to change the affinity of a program on Windows 10

How to change the affinity of a program on Windows 10

Changing the process affinity means that you restrict the application from running only on certain processor cores. This can be very useful if you have a program that occupies the entire CPU. If this happens, your computer will be almost unusable until the program frees up resources.

That’s why we’ve created a tutorial showing you how to change the affinity of a program on Windows 10.

Video transcript:

  1. Right-click on the Start line and click on Task Manager
  2. Click on Details
  3. Find the name of the program for which you want to change the affinity and right-click
  4. Click Set affinity
  5. Select the cores that the program will be allowed to use and click OK

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