On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:44:23 +0000, Brian Inglis wrote: > > Can't start a service with affinity - use a PowerShell script scheduled > at system startup to find the process and set the affinity to the high > CPU bit. I've now got a scheduled task which runs a ps1 script which in turn sets ntpd to CPU 1 at startup on this core2duo. Works well. Thanks Brian.