(I came in on the tail end of this conversation)
 
If you are running Windows XP (and possibly other OS's), you can make a batch file to force an application to run at a predetermined CPU priority. Here are three examples you can try:
 
start "" /high "c:\Something.exe"
start "" /normal "c:\Something.exe"
start "" /low "c:\Something.exe"
 
You can also use /realtime but that almost always freezes a system. Good luck.
 
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Prime] BOINC vs. Prime95 priority solved.

> Seti (old style) used to run at priority 4. Go to Advanced/Priority in Prime9

> and try setting prime95's priority to 4 also.

Thanks, that fixed it. Prime95 seems to be now competing equally with Boinc, and I can adjust the Prime95 share with Throttle.
Looks like Boinc is running it's sub-projects at 4. I wish (in fact I've asked them) to run at lower priority, I find Boinc stalls my
network backup package, and lately Copernic Desktop Search indexing, even though it shouldn't stall any genuine app. I guess
they're all trying to be lowest priority. Windows needs a "Distributed Computing" lowest-of-the-low priority !
 
Greg E 
 
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