one CPU system shows 2 CPUs under task manager

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It's not a bug....read the following:
Hyper-Threading Technology
http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/

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"Gillies" wrote:

| Greetings gurus,
|
| Funny, I have many computers around with only ONE cpu but XP task manager
| shows 2 CPUs and 2 graphical CPU usage. I've seen this bug on so many
| systems running WinXP SP2 since I've noticed.
|
| Any fix around ?
|
| TIA
|
| Gillies

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Gillies wrote:
> Greetings gurus,
>
> Funny, I have many computers around with only ONE cpu but XP task manager
> shows 2 CPUs and 2 graphical CPU usage. I've seen this bug on so many
> systems running WinXP SP2 since I've noticed.
>
> Any fix around ?
>


There's nothing to fix, other than your knowledge of the OS.

Windows XP and Hyper-Threading
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;810231


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