update: podium also doesn’t show a multiprocessing option now. But I think XP must still be using hyperthreading because it displays two mps computers in device manager, plus I am having at least 33% more spare cpu. Therefore, this seems a good workaround for multiprocessing podium stabley…. Does this mean XP is allocating resources itself, instead of allowing apps to choose which processor they run on? Does anybody else want to try this, just to prove i am not dreaming? 🙂