Launch apps with desired priority setting
Operating Systems, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro August 29th, 2004
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!
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Hey nice thinking. Its so simple yet so useful.
Wow.. I just read the exact same thing on tweakxp.com.. wonder who stole it from who.. either way it’s not what i’m looking for
Really nice, often overlooked way to control program priority; good stuff! =)