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Did you do this in MSConfig, setting # of processors to 4?
Here:
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And now msconfig won't open so you can't undo it?
If you can open msconfig, click Boot tab, click Advanced, uncheck Number of processors, click OK, reboot, and it should be fixed.
If you can't open msconfig, will need to either edit the registry offline or edit the BCD from a recovery environment using command prompt (and bcdedit). In particular, this command:
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} numproc
but {default} could be (current} or a GUID (a long string of hex numbers) for you. Need you to post a screenshot of the results from this command:
bcdedit
so that I can tell you which of these it should be for you.
Here is how to get to recovery in win 10:
Boot to Win 10 Install USB/DVD, choose repair computer.
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Turn on computer. As it starts to boot, hold down the power button until it shuts down. Do this three times in a row. On the next power on it should start to WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) - a big blue screen such as this:
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Then click Troubleshoot -> Advanced -> Command Prompt
More info on fixing this via registry is here:
https://appuals.com/restore-processors-system-configuration-windows-10/
But if regedit won't open (and I assume it won't, if msconfig won't), you have to do this offline, which complicates things....
Here:
And now msconfig won't open so you can't undo it?
If you can open msconfig, click Boot tab, click Advanced, uncheck Number of processors, click OK, reboot, and it should be fixed.
If you can't open msconfig, will need to either edit the registry offline or edit the BCD from a recovery environment using command prompt (and bcdedit). In particular, this command:
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} numproc
but {default} could be (current} or a GUID (a long string of hex numbers) for you. Need you to post a screenshot of the results from this command:
bcdedit
so that I can tell you which of these it should be for you.
Here is how to get to recovery in win 10:
Boot to Win 10 Install USB/DVD, choose repair computer.
-or-
Turn on computer. As it starts to boot, hold down the power button until it shuts down. Do this three times in a row. On the next power on it should start to WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) - a big blue screen such as this:
Then click Troubleshoot -> Advanced -> Command Prompt
More info on fixing this via registry is here:
https://appuals.com/restore-processors-system-configuration-windows-10/
But if regedit won't open (and I assume it won't, if msconfig won't), you have to do this offline, which complicates things....
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