Default affinity for applications set to only use first 4 cpu cores.

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The title basically says it all. Recently for some reason most processes are launched with a default affinity (set in task manager) to only use the first 4 processor cores/threads. I have an 8 core 16 thread cpu, so this is utilizing only 1/4 of the CPU and I have noticed a significant decrease in performance. I understand I can manually change the affinity, but doing that for every program each time i reboot my PC is not a solution, so please do not suggest it. I want to figure out why this happened, and fix it.

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