Changing Program Process Priority Defaults

From: Arne (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:17:18 -0700

This is not a direct answer to your question about
changing the program priority. The Freeware program
ThreadMaster
 http://threadmaster.tripod.com/
allows you to set the maximum percentage of CPU time any
program will use. It will work on WinXP. It runs as a
service.

It was distributed to limit the CPU time that the SETI
(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)uses when
running in the background. Edit the Seti.reg file that is
included within notepad, add the necessary programs from
the Processes list (Virus Scanner)listed in Windows Task
Manager. The install program installs to the directory
Windows32\Tweakmaster

The default is to limit any program not on the exceptions
list to 80% of total CPU time.

Arne
>-----Original Message-----
>My kids love playing a Disney Lama Game. However
whenever this application
>starts it hogs all the processing recourses. In Task
Manager its prioity is
>defaulted to "High" rather than normal. The issue is
that this kills the
>sharing and email server on the machine. I can manually
reset the priority to
>Normal if I can catch them playing it. Can I set the
register to
>automatically force the default to normal priority?
>Help - as always - much appreciated.
>Cheers.
>.
>

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