Is it true that XP home edition cant support multicore cpus?

Question

I read somewhere that if you run multicore cpus on XP home edition, then all the cores will be deactivated in the OS except 1 core. Is this true?

Answer 1

nope. i have xp home edition and running a dual core pc. simple check is to ctrl+alt+delete and go to performance tab. it should show two cores working.

Answer 2

Now thats bullshit and not true!

Iv seen plenty of quad core XP's

Answer 3

i dont think so

becoz few months ago, i installed home edition of windows xp on my core 2 duo processor with D945GCCR motherboard

Answer 4

Definitely not true but you may need to enable it......



http://www.handaware.com/multiprocessor_XP.html