Launch apps with desired priority setting

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August 29th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 118 times, 2 so far today

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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3 Comments

  1. #
    Sanyam Jain
    March 6th, 2005 at 10:53 pm

    Hey nice thinking. Its so simple yet so useful.

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  2. #
    Matrix
    November 5th, 2005 at 8:36 pm

    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

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  3. #
    D
    June 18th, 2006 at 12:53 am

    Really nice, often overlooked way to control program priority; good stuff! =)

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