Description: Ever since I saw Performance application on Windows 2000, I wondered if there is a way/Windows API to programmatically determine CPU usage for each of the individual CPUs in a multi-processor machine. Though there are many articles for getting the CPU usage, none helped when it came to multi-processor machines.
After some digging in MSDN, I could find WMI (Windows Management and Instrumentation) has a few performance counter classes. I chose to use the Win32_PerfRawData_PerfOS_Processor class in this case as it is supported on Windows 2000 onwards.
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CheckMultiprocessor
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...................\.....\StdAfx.cpp
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