The ThinkCentre’s fan hiccupped. Then it purred.
She dug into the advanced power settings. The usual suspects: PCI Express, USB selective suspend. Then she saw it.
She closed the laptop slowly.
Paul, peering over her shoulder, said, “Whoa. It’s snappy.”
Then she whispered to the sleeping ThinkCentre, “You can keep your ghost. Just don’t let it touch Excel.” core parking windows 10
She set "Core parking" to . Applied. Rebooted.
The slider was set to "Aggressive." Windows 10 had been parking her unused cores—shutting them down entirely to save a teaspoon of electricity—and then desperately trying to spin them back up the millisecond Paul clicked a mouse. The ThinkCentre’s fan hiccupped
Marta ran the usual diagnostics. No malware. SSD health at 98%. RAM was fine. CPU utilization was bizarre—core 0 was pegged at 100%, while cores 1, 2, and 3 were flatlined, as if on strike.
