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Permanently setting the Base Priority

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by northwood

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I noticed that when you set the BASE Priority of a process, like notepad, from Normal to Below Normal, it reverts back to Normal after you exit Notepad and relaunch it.

Using Task Managaer, is there a way to set the Base Priority of a process so that the new priority stays in place after you launch the process again?

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

you can use the start command to start an application and it has several options - including priority.

do a...

start /?

For all the options, but you can do a...

start /low notepad

for example to start a low priority notepad process. If you needed it to be a shortcut, then you would have to write a one liner batch script with the above line and have the shortcut point to that. Change the icon to "notepad's icon" if it makes you feel better...

Cheers,
Tim.

by timthetoolman

Oh, and to answer the second part of your question... No, there is no way using the task manager to set a process to another priority for the next time it starts.

Cheers,
Tim.

by timthetoolman

Another option you have is to make a mod in the registry.

For example...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/applications/notepad/shell/open/command

has a registry key...

%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1

Which you may be able to alter to have the start option. I haven't tried it, though. I'm not keen to break my registry....

Cheers,
Tim.

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