Registry settings for application priority in WindowsXP?

[Jeff7]

I've done searches on this, and the answers thus far involve using the Taskmanager to adjust the priority, but that only lasts until the program is closed. The other 'solution' is to use the commandline, and then the Start command, but I'm not sure that that will work. I want to have Media Player run at High Priority all the time. Is there an easier way of having it open at high priority all the time? Something like a registry setting, or INI setting would be better. Sure, using the CMD Start thing in a shortcut might work, but if I open a file directly in Explorer, it would just open Media Player at normal priority.

Quick background on this: I've recorded some shows off of TV and re-encoded them to Divx. Thing is, decoding it takes quite a bit of processor time - 40% on my XP1900. Well anyway, when I do other intensive things, such as scrolling down a page in IE

, the video skips. Setting it to high priority in Taskmanager prevents this, and does so without any noticable impacts on system performance or stability.

 

[NogginBoink]

There's no registry setting that I'm aware of.

Create a shortcut that uses the /high switch.

 

[Jeff7]

Adding /high to the shortcut's command path doesn't do anything.🙁

Edit: Guess that creating a few batch files (for opening or playing files when opened) is the only solution to this? It might be neat if they'd include something to change the priority in the shortcut window itself.

Edit2: Seems that batch files are no good for when you want to double click a media file; the BAT file executes then, setting Wmplayer to high priority, but mediaplayer then reports that it can't find the specified file.

 

[bsobel]

You can take a peak at PriorityMaster. I haven't found it, but had a similar need (actually, I wanted to force a few apps to lower priority). Found it from a Google search but am in the middle of setting up a new machine so haven't tried it yet.

Bill