Saving Process Priority on Program Startup.


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Is there a way to save process priority state for a program every time it starts? Let say explorer.exe, in Task Manager, under Processes tab, you can right click on explorer.exe and select Set priority to something like High or Real time. What I wanna know is there a way to make explorer.exe run at High or Real time every time it starts without doing it manually in the Task Manager? And are there any system stability problems when manually changing process priority? This is useful for something like explorer.exe or yzdock.exe, so that they don't perform slow when CPU is being used intensively by another program. Any ideas anyone?

I wanna know this too!

I thought of using a tweak program.

But Microsoft Powertoys, Tweak UI and Costumizer XP don't allow you to change the process priority.

Start>Run>msconfig

This will show you everything at startup

I can't think of anything else... anyone else with a better idea to save priorities at startup?

Thanks for the link, but I have checked out other task manager utilities. Wintask 4 does not have a feature to save priority on startup, you still need to manually click on something to set the priority. There's a script window that you script priority, but when I tried it, it always kicked the priority up to real time, and there's no conrtol of what priority level you want. I'm not a programmer so I don't know how to script it better.

There's Priority Master ( http://prioritymaster.com/prod01.htm ). Now this program seems to claim that it can save process priority on program startup: "UNIQUE FEATURES! Priority Master III for Win NT/2K/XP makes your Windows NT/2K/XP machine super responsive when running multiple programs at the same time. The basic principle is very simple. With a few mouse mouse clicks, you automatically and permanently set the priority of your programs into one of 4 priority groups. This is true "Set and Forget" process priority. That way, when unimportant programs run, they do not interfere with the foreground program. Set the important programs in High priority only ONCE and anytime that they run, they will have the boosted priority."

Anyway, I was hoping for a free solution without the need for a separate utlility. Both WinTask and Priority Master cost money. :(

Anyone else has any other ideas? There must be a way to do this in windows because I see taskmgr.exe and winlogon.exe loaded as High Priority everytime it runs. How is it done? :huh:

Edited by mayamaniac

a process can change it's own priority, this is why task manager and other programs (winlogon.exe, etc) seem to start in high priority. however, i believe they start in normal priority, like everything else, and then later shift themselves into high priority. i don't think you can tell windows to always start a program in a certain priority mode, not without using some sort of launcher to start the program...

  • 1 year later...

Just wanna update a thread I started more than a year ago that I never found a solution till now. Anyway, I found how to start a program in high process priority. You just use the "start" command. Example:

To have objectdock.exe auto startup in high priority, make a shortcut of objectdock and place it in the Startup folder, then get Properties on the shortcut and change the Target to:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start /high C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock\ObjectDock.exe

And change the Start In to:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\

Thats it, just run the shortcut and check your task manager, it should be in High priority mode. The shortcut icon just change to the command icon, just change it if you want. And for more options on the start command, type "start /?" in a command window.

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