Every third-party app or system process in Windows consumes CPU capacity. Although most apps or processes are good at determining whether or not they are using too much CPU capacity, you can still limit these apps.
Limiting an app offers some advantages. You can decide for yourself whether the app should not consume too many CPU processes. It is no longer the app that can prioritize this itself. This has the advantage that you can be sure that this app is not consuming all the CPU processes if you are not sure.
In addition to adjusting the priority for a particular app, you can also limit the number of CPU cores for an app. This allows you to determine how many cores the app can use in Windows. Limiting the number of CPU cores for this app helps prioritize other processes that are allowed to use all CPU cores. This is how you can limit CPU consumption per app.
Limit CPU consumption per app in Windows 10 or Windows 11
In Windows you can set per process and priority via task manager. Setting a new priority for a process changes its position in the processing queue. Higher priority tasks are given priority in the allocation of system resources such as CPU time and geheugen.
If you suspect that a certain process is consuming too much CPU time and/or memory, you can lower the priority.
Open task management. Click on “more details” at the bottom left. Click on the “Details” tab to display all active processes. Then right-click on the process and click “set priority” and select the desired priority.
It is not recommended to adjust the priority for system processes. I recommend that you only run this on third-party processes, such as app(s) that you have installed.
To now determine how many CPU cores the process may consume, you can adjust the affinity settings per process. Right-click on the process, and then click “set affinity”.
For this process, select how many processor(s) it can use. It helps to reserve a particular core of the CPU for a particular thread to be executed. Click OK to confirm.
After this adjustment, you must restart the computer to activate the change.
I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!
Also read: View data usage per app in Windows 11.
Thank you very much Stefan. You helped a layman tremendously with this piece!