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I run Windows in a virtual machine. I have msinfo32 output and it is not showing how many cores it is using. It just shows:

Is there any other place in the msinfo output that says how many logical processors are being used? I can only use the output of the msinfo utility (and not Task Manager for example, since I want to be able to exclude possible bugs from third party tools that are being used by clients).

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Typically, the number of cores should be listed where you are looking. If not, your Windows installation should store this in the NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS environment variable, which can be accessed via msinfo32 with the following instructions:

  1. Open msinfo32 (Start -> Run -> msinfo32)
  2. On the left-hand side, expand Software Environment
  3. Select Environment Variables
  4. Look at the Variable NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS

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  • Bear in mind though that this does not tell you anything about the topology. It could be 2 Cores with 2 Threads each or 4 Cores or even 4 1-Core CPUs.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Jan 5, 2015 at 20:00
  • Yes, you are correct. This asker is not trying to define the topology though. Baijan is just trying to use msinfo32 to identify how many cores are allocated to a given VM instance.
    – user388043
    Commented Jan 10, 2015 at 17:51
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You will need to search for Processor inside the MSINFO application.

I was able to find the # of cores in my msinfo32

If MSINFO32 doesn't report a number of cores and logical processors, then it's running on a single processor.

Doing a little googling the only thing I could find close to your named processor above was a Celeron chip which would only = 1 core. I was not able to find the exact x86 Family 6 Model 47 Stepping 2 processor.

You can use Powershell to find that info if you want.

Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor NumberOfCores
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  • OP: "I can only use the output of the msinfo utility"
    – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
    Commented Jan 5, 2015 at 18:45
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    Oops, I see that now. Why use anything but powershell these days???
    – Optichip
    Commented Jan 5, 2015 at 19:01

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