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Question

wrong selection of number of processor in advanced boot opti

Aug 12, 2014 10:24AM PDT

hello sir,
i have acer aspire v3-571g laptop with windows 8.1 x64 based OS. Processor is Intel Core i5.
To get a faster booting, i selected 2 processor instead of 1 in advanced boot option (msconfig) by mistake and now my laptop become dead slow on booting and startup.
I am in a big headache now...
Please help a hand to solve this issue...
Thank you..

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Clarification Request
Why not change it again?
Aug 12, 2014 10:28AM PDT
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boot problem.
Aug 12, 2014 4:26PM PDT

Thanks for your suggestion. the system was dead slow to boot. It takes nearly 5 hours to reach there "advanced boot option" menu after pressing power on button. Unpicked the "processor numbers" and " memory". Problem solved..

Thanks for your Reply