John (and the rest), I have found this utility for setting CPU-affinity, which I know causes you headaches every time you reboot Vista. [URL]http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=88&Itemid=93[/URL] It applies to Vista but I don't know if that includes x64 Vista, I have not tried it yet. "CPU-Control handles the CPU-affinity for multicore-systems (supports quadcores as well). Instead of running each process on both CPUs you can define it as you want it. For example, if you want to seperate the firewall and the anti-virus-software from the graphics-application. CPU-Controls offers five different ways to control the CPU-affinity: Automatic: It chooses alternatingly one CPU for each new process Manual: You define a list, where you can set the way to handle each process All processes run on CPU 1, which is useful for old applications which crashes on a dual core system All processes run on CPU 2 Deactivated" D/L link: [URL]http://www.koma-code.de/ProgsZip/CPU_Control.zip[/URL] Carlos