Telling an exe to always run at a higher priority

[BrenOS]

I can do this each time I run it in task manager, but is there a way to have it set automatically when its loaded?

 

[Hxc]

Any real reason to need to do this? it really doesn't make that much difference.

 

[The Mad One]

Any real reason to need to do this? it really doesn't make that much difference.

Clearly you've never put a process on higher priority/don't understand how it works.

As for the original question theres no automatic way in windows of doing this but there are some programs out there that can do this, but none that i know of that are free. Do a quick google search of "process priority" and you'll see some of these.

 

[c00kie]

you can use a vbs script to do it, however this requires being clicked on to raise the priority.

i used to use this with my intellimouse drivers so it would work properly in games:

put this in a new file and save as *.vbs, then run whenever you need it. in my case i put it in the startup folder.

Const ABOVE_NORMAL = 32768
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'point32.exe'")
For Each objProcess in colProcesses
    objProcess.SetPriority(ABOVE_NORMAL) 
Next

DONT ask me what half of it means - i just found it and use it, didnt write it

 

[z0mbi3]

I was under the impression you could build it into the shortcut?

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c START /high