How do I change process priority by default to always be above normal?

[StageLeft]

For some damn reason all Chrome instances are below normal on my computer. In fact, I want them above normal. I found a program called Prio to download and it lets you save priority changings for next time but that seems silly. Is there no better way to do it? Surely XP via registry or other can let me set a program's default priority?

 

[Nothinman]

No, AFAIK the only way to do it is to create a batch file using the 'start' command to change the priority. However, setting process' to "above normal" is a bad idea because the Windows process scheduler isn't very good...

 

[StageLeft]

No, AFAIK the only way to do it is to create a batch file using the 'start' command to change the priority. However, setting process' to "above normal" is a bad idea because the Windows process scheduler isn't very good...

That sucks! I have no idea why Chrome is below normal. it's the only process I'm aware of that is and it's the one I tolerate slowness with the least 🙁

 

[Nothinman]

That sucks! I have no idea why Chrome is below normal. it's the only process I'm aware of that is and it's the one I tolerate slowness with the least 🙁

Chrome is my primary browser on Linux these days and I've never even had a reason to look at it's niceness. And I just started it on my Win7 work laptop and all of the processes I spot-checked were "Normal" priority.

 

[StageLeft]

Chrome is my primary browser on Linux these days and I've never even had a reason to look at it's niceness. And I just started it on my Win7 work laptop and all of the processes I spot-checked were "Normal" priority.

I think it did this on my home PC to be honest but I am not 100% sure. It's exceedingly unacceptable to me, though!

 

[EagleKeeper]

Unintall and reinstall it.

Priority are built intothe application itself and set at startup.
One can change the priority after the app is running.

Only other option would be to try to hack the app by locating the proper byte in the executable and changing it.

Placing things above normal that are either CPU and/or I/O intensive can drastically affect the way the overall system runs

 

[0roo0roo]

there was some donation ware process priority changer program i tried once, it worked but the authors site made you jump through hoops registering on their forum and all sorts of garbage to get to it.

 

[Nothinman]

Unintall and reinstall it.

Priority are built intothe application itself and set at startup.
One can change the priority after the app is running.

Only other option would be to try to hack the app by locating the proper byte in the executable and changing it.

Placing things above normal that are either CPU and/or I/O intensive can drastically affect the way the overall system runs

Processes can change their priority, only down if you're non-admin AFAIK, however reinstalling them won't change that. If they do it, they do it and that's all there is to it.

 

[Modelworks]

I like process lasso for changing priorities, works well.
http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php