Launching a program in High priority

[Samwiches]

Speedfan hangs a bit when I'm running Linpack stress test, so I want it to autorun in high priority. I made a speedfan.cmd:

start /high speedfan.exe

But it just loads with normal priority. What do I do?

This is in Windows 7 64bit.

 

[xxEIEIOxx]

Are you running that speedfan.cmd as Admin?

 

[Samwiches]

No. I tried that but it only loads the command prompt.

 

[rive22]

This will do it for you.

http://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

You'll have to pull up the default windows task manager to do it if you normally use process explorer, etc. But once it's done, it's done

 

[Stoly]

May I ask why would someone run speedfan in high priority?

 

[Gman1979]

To make sure they're getting timely temp and voltage updates from Speedfan while the system is bogged down running the Linpack test.

 

[bigdogchris]

I believe Process Lasso will allow you to automatically launch it with the priority you want.

 

[Samwiches]

I saw Process lasso, but Windows has got to be able to do this for me for free.

 

[Ranma_Sao]

So speedfan.exe will run at high priority? An application can control which priority it's ran at...

But the script looks correct, other than I would give the full path to speedfan.

I also am not sure this will solve your problem, but it should work assuming SpeedFan doesn't monitor it's priority and switch it back.

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