Does CPU-Control work in W7?

Windows 7 takes care of CPU affinity, but you can use apps like this if you wish, although I see no point in doing so unless you have a need to control various apps to use specific cores of a CPU.

Try it and see, but I would imagine most users see no need to utilise an app like this, I know I dont as I see no real world home usage benefit of controlling CPU affinity.

 

Best thing to do is to test all your apps out and see if they give you the functionality you want, as many of us may not use what you do, especially as you only just installed WIn7 and just getting it going with the apps you want, this time is perfect to play with apps as further down the line when you have Win7 as you want it, its less likely you'd want to test out apps for fear of corrupting or breaking Windows,

This is where if you have a spare copy of Windows 7 and running Virtualisation comes in handy, run Sun Virtual Box or Windows Virtual PC 2007 and have a spare OS to test apps with, this is what I do and have XP SP3, Vista SP2, Win7 RTM and Linux Mint and Ubuntu to test apps and troubleshooting steps in, which alot of app and OS testers use this method, saves in the main using a live OS install.

Doesnt impact in corrupting or erroring the main installed OS, by virtualisation you can test to your hearts content. Below older image of my Virtual PC setup OSes but have added a few more and a beta of an OS in testing.

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Have tried those apps and settings to tweak TCP/IP but didnt see any noticable increase in throughput, but one thing I would suggest especially if having an older modem router is to turn off Autotuning and TCP/IP v6 for now.

Autotuning
Open a admin CMD window (click Start and type cmd into the start seach boc than right click cmd and choose run as admin) then type netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

tends to aid some speed in net connection and mor so helps some older apps connect to the net easier or at all.

TCP/IP v6
Open the Network connection properties for your WiFi or Ethernet and choose Properties then in the network tab untick Internet Protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) - TCP/IP v6 is not widely used as yet and can in some instances cause slowness, same for XP, Vista.