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Its all about your priorities

Published in Windows XP Performance Tweaks by TweakXP Member with 10,497 views
In life, the only way to succeed is to get your priorities straight. Well tough-luck, to all you slackers, the computer world ain't much different. Windows has setup a system controlled hiearchy which is notably called the Priority System. By increasing a programs priority, the task manager tells the system to pay more attention to it, by feeding it RAM and optimizing that program to use the system cache more effifiently. Lets explore into the wonderful world of priorities.

1.) Right click on your taskbar and select TASK MANAGER
2.) Under the Processes pane select a program that you would like sped up.
3.) Now right click, and under Set Priority, set the system priority to High.

That program will be much faster, and will run more efficiently. Beware, by setting it to Realtime requires a motherload of RAM (256MB a minimum). Note, the system priority won't always be high, it will only be high for the current session. Meaning, once you restart your computer, all your priorities will be set back to its default (most of the time normal). Another hint, is not to set a system priority, because system managed files will give you an Access Denied error.

Happy Tweaking!
 
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Grant
Sweet! I have a windows XP that I bought in 04 refurbished and so its really slow now a days but by just readjusting priority settings it runs almost like new!
40 days ago
Joo
I tried everything, increasing RAM, and 80 bucks worth of 2gb increased the speed marginally.

Defrag, increasing virtual memory, made a small difference too.
But the priority adjustment - blammo - my youtube vids now don't stutter when i move the mouse, for instance, and the speed in other cases is tremendous. I'm glad i found out how.
But my IT guy at work says its dangerous.
30 days ago
 
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