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Programs vs Background services and Programs vs Cache

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jibberishballr

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What are the advantages of choosing these settings? (Ones found under computer properties/performance/advance options)

Would having a quad core make any of these choices more advantageous?
 
Programs are generally the application you run day-to-day. Word, Maya, Zune, etc.

Services run in the background invisbly, generally starting with the system (Anti-virus, Print spooler, Faxing service) and enable some functionality for the system to use. For a list of services on your computer run services.msc. You could use task manager but the mmc UI is a bit better.

Adjust performance for: Programs.
 
It adjusts the CPU share timeslices and memory policies slightly. IIRC setting it for cache will basically remove the bonuses that Windows gives to apps running in the foreground so the CPU share will be more fair all around instead of favoring the foreground app.
 
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