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Feb 5th, 2006 at 1:57pm

Rockin Bassist Benji   Offline
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Hey guys does anyone know of a program that can set programs to start up with increased or decreased system priority? like you can do with task manager yet the programs load up already set to diffrent levels?
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Reply #1 - Feb 5th, 2006 at 3:21pm

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FSAutostart will.  According to the documentation

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"Process Priority": used to indicate what priority you want the main application to run.

But I have never tried to do that with it.
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 12th, 2006 at 8:25pm

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However you do it, be very careful doing so.. Wink
 
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Reply #3 - Feb 13th, 2006 at 7:29pm

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You can do this for any program you have installed:
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This tweak will launch most executables with the priority setting you want it to have.

Let’s say you have a game installed called HIGH NEEDS and the executable is called HN.exe

Here’s what to do:

-Create a new textfile in the game-app wathever-directory (let’s say C:\HN), but instead of giving it the .txt extension you name it HN.bat
-Right-click this file and choose ‘Edit’, you’ll see it’ll open notepad. Put this line in:
cmd /c start /High NH.exe
-Save (make sure you save it as .bat, not as .txt) and close.

Now create a shortcut to this file and place it on your desktop. Every time you doubleclick this shortcut HIGH NEEDS will open with priority set to ‘high’. (ofcourse you can also create a batchfile on your desktop, containing the full path of the app you want to start but the nice thing of creating a shortcut is you can give it an icon).

These are all the settings: Realtime, High, AboveNormal, Normal, BelowNormal, Low.

*Realtime is not recommended unless you have a dual-CPU system!


I've tested and it does work when you click the new .bat icon you made to start your application.

However, I've always considered the priority setting a placebo effect. I've never seen any definitive proof changing the priority on non-system tasks does anything whatsoever.
 

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