Manage the priorities of the software in Windows Vista
By: Staff
Date: August 15, 2007
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Level: Intermediate |
Recently, a faithful reader wondered about the possibility to launch software with the highest priority. If you have the same interrogations go directly in paragraph 2. If you do not understand what kind of tip is this stay a little together to formulate some explanations.
Windows Vista likes to arrange its small software as you select the most urgent tasks to make and those which can still wait a few days. This is why Vista allots five levels of priority according to what it considers most important:
- Real time
- High priority
- Normal
- To see later
- I don't care, I will see that tomorrow.
In spite of this rather pointed management, it happens that you wish to grant more of capacities to software than Windows wants to provide him well. It is the case for example when you use software of video assembly.
To place software in high priority, go in the tack manager while pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete on your keyboard. This combination with the advantage of avoiding the intermediate screen of the choice of the options.
Now click on Processes tab. Choose the software concerned and click right on name. It is enough for you now to define the priority. I advice to you despite everything the option real time which implies to have a very powerful PC.
Note: the priority is valid only the time of the use of the software. With its next opening, it will be again affected at a normal priority.
That brings us to the second easy way: how devil to allot in a systematic way a particular priority. I give it to you into thousand, the solution is right below. It is first of all necessary to create a shortcut towards the software concerned:
- Right click on the desktop, choose New > Shortcut
- Type: cmd /c start /” the access path to the software “
- Validate the creation of the shortcut.
The five levels are as follows (stronger priority with weakest): realtime, high, normal, abovenormal, belownormal. For example if you wish to give a high priority to Adobe First it will be necessary for you to type:
cmd /c start/high ” c:\program files\adobe\premiere.exe
That would be it. Now to each time you launch the software it will have the desired priority. To launch the software to starting, you do not have any more but to slip the shortcut into the tab starting of the menu to start Windows.
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