Determine core information of the second CPU detected in your computer.

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This setting displays general information about your second CPU in case you have dual processor or multiprocessor system. The displayed information includes processor name, processor speed etc.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
The cpu information of your computer can be retrieved with this setting. It gives basic information of your second cpu in case you have dual processor or multiprocessor system. With this setting, you can know the processor name, processor speed, identify processor family, including identifying the vendor of the second cpu. Additionally, you can access information of floating point processor. Important: in the below given registry path, 1 refers to the second physical cpu or the second logical cpu in your system, if you have dual processors or multiprocessors on your system. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. The cpu information is listed in the right panel of the registry editor window. Note: the registry in windows 98 contains only few of the below given value names. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit"
Next, go to <b>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\1\]</b>, to view "CentralProcessor" information regarding the second CPU detected on your system.
Then, go to <b>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\FloatingPointProcessor\1\] </b>, to view the "FloatingPointProcessor" information of second CPU.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\1\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: ProcessorNameString
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Action Type: View Information
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\1\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: Identifier
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Action Type: View Information
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\1\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: VendorIdentifier
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Action Type: View Information
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\1\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: ~MHz
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Action Type: View Information
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\FloatingPointProcessor\1\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: Identifier
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Action Type: View Information