diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
index d306a7f825..92d9b42286 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ Release date: TBA
 
   Closes #7006
 
+* Fixed an issue where many-core Windows machines (>~60 logical processors) would hang when
+  using the default jobs count.
+
+  Closes #6965
+
 What's New in Pylint 2.14.3?
 ----------------------------
 Release date: 2022-06-18
diff --git a/pylint/lint/base_options.py b/pylint/lint/base_options.py
index 25327e635e..d909e39c59 100644
--- a/pylint/lint/base_options.py
+++ b/pylint/lint/base_options.py
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ def _make_linter_options(linter: PyLinter) -> Options:
                 "short": "j",
                 "default": 1,
                 "help": "Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will "
-                "auto-detect the number of processors available to use.",
+                "auto-detect the number of processors available to use, and will cap "
+                "the count on Windows to avoid hangs.",
             },
         ),
         (
diff --git a/pylint/lint/run.py b/pylint/lint/run.py
index 27a4d9d84d..b8923aac5f 100644
--- a/pylint/lint/run.py
+++ b/pylint/lint/run.py
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ def _cpu_count() -> int:
         cpu_count = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
     else:
         cpu_count = 1
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        # See also https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/94242
+        cpu_count = min(cpu_count, 56)  # pragma: no cover
     if cpu_share is not None:
         return min(cpu_share, cpu_count)
     return cpu_count