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Windows 2000 Misc. - Change Process Priority

Is a particular program or process running too fast or too slow on your Windows 2000 machine? Is a program or process taking too much of your CPU time or can you allow a process or program to take more of your computing power? Here's how to manage your machine.

To change these settings for a particular process, just right-click on an empty area of your taskbar and choose "Task Manager..." On the "Windows Task Manager" dialog box that follows, select a process and right-click it. On the popup menu that appears, select "Set Priority" and choose one of the following priorities: "Realtime", "High", "Above Normal", "Normal", "Below Normal", or "Low". The lower the priority is on the popup menu, the lower percentage of CPU time will be delegated to said priority.

Note that depending on the process and your administrative rights to your machine, you may not be able to change a particular process's priority.