Core Parking

I want to disable CPU core parking in Windows 7.

To that end I was able to follow the instructions at the below link to add the following entries to Processor Power Management under Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change plan setting -> Change advanced power settings.



http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/494232-how-adjust-core-parking-inside-windows-7-a.html

The problem I now have is that I cannot change the "Processor performance core parking min cores" setting.  Whatever value I enter in that field is reverted to 0 as soon as I click Apply.  It seems that I can change the value for "Processor performance core parking max cores."

I saw some reference to this problem later in the same linked thread.  The suggested solution was to go into the Windows registry and make sure that the Max and Min values for each power profile are correct and at their default.

I'm not sure what the correct, default values are, and not sure how to find and change them if they are not correct...

Any information on this?  I've tried a number of other "fixes" to disable core parking, but when I check the Windows Resource Monitor, it always clearly shows that some of my cores are parked.  So I think it must be that my machine always over-rides these changes I make to the registry.

I have read that if C6 is disabled in the BIOS, Windows cannot park cores.  I haven't tried that yet, and I'm not sure if that is correct and a good way to go about disabling core parking.

Thanks for any help!

Anybody have any further info / thoughts on this core parking issue?

I'm still don't understand why entering any value in "Processor performance core parking min cores" is changed to 0 as soon as I click "Apply"...

Thanks!

Way too technical for me, but I disabled core parking using the little program talked about and linked from this video. Took seconds and worked easily
http://youtu.be/QkfIFP0g2xY

Edited by ScottishBattleAx - 30 Nov 2013 at 5:12am