Task priorities

[Hammer]

If I go into task manager (windows xp) I can increase the priority of a particular process so that it runs faster, or at least doesn't slow down as much when multi-tasking. Can I change something somewhere so that a particular program always has high priority without having to go through task manager each time?

[kempie]

This article describes how to automatically run a program at a lower priority using start /belownormal (with the caveat that it does not work for all applications).

Other priority switches are:
/low
/normal
/high
/realtime
/abovenormal

N.B. Changing the priority of a process can make it run faster or slower (depending on whether you raise or lower the priority), but it can also adversely affect the performance of other processes.

[Hammer]

Nice one kempie. That made me think about it differently and I've lowered the priority of something else instead. Seems to have worked....