On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:32, GANNS.com wrote: > (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"
But Prime95 will set its own priority once it's running. The place to change Prime95's priority is from the "Advanced" drop-down menu in its console window. Don't set zero as you will be forcing it to compete with the idle process! > > You can also use /realtime but that almost always freezes a system. Good > luck. That's a _really dumb_ thing to do. > > 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. Thanks for warning us off. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
