[Peter A.]

What's the difference with the Process Priorities in the Task Manager (i.e. High, Above Normal, Normal, etc.)?

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[Sharon F]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:53:58 -0400, Peter A. wrote:

> What's the difference with the Process Priorities in the Task Manager (i.e. High, Above Normal, Normal, etc.)?


It's covered in Task Manager's help file:
<quote>
Changing the priority of a process can make it run faster or slower
(depending on if you raise or lower the priority), but it can also
adversely effect the performance of other processes.
</end of quote>

Have been running XP since it was released (and for a while before that)
and have never had the need to change the priority of a program or a
process. An example where one might consider using these settings: If
struggling to get good results, raising the priority of a program
processing a multimedia conversion could be beneficial while that task is
running.

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[Peter A.]

Thanks

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"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:53:58 -0400, Peter A. wrote:
>
>> What's the difference with the Process Priorities in the Task Manager
>> (i.e. High, Above Normal, Normal, etc.)?
>
>
> It's covered in Task Manager's help file:
> <quote>
> Changing the priority of a process can make it run faster or slower
> (depending on if you raise or lower the priority), but it can also
> adversely effect the performance of other processes.
> </end of quote>
>
> Have been running XP since it was released (and for a while before that)
> and have never had the need to change the priority of a program or a
> process. An example where one might consider using these settings: If
> struggling to get good results, raising the priority of a program
> processing a multimedia conversion could be beneficial while that task is
> running.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User