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Hi.

Anyone knows how to set the priority of an application in windows xp via commandline?
What I want achieve is a shortcut to an application (mxed and mxst) that ought to starts in low priority for example.

Just as we can do it with mxcl ("...\mxcl.exe" -p:low). But here I guess, this "-p" switch is a feature bundled to mxcl code and not to xp, isn't it?

So how do I do it in xp generally? There should be a way?!

I think if you create a new shortcut to the exe, then you can define it to open as low priority.

Thx Bubbaloo.

But... no, couldn't find it... any other ideas?

System is xp32bit prof

When you right click on the shortcut, and go to properties, does it look something like this?

This is Vista but it should be similar.

Well, yes it looks the same.. at least in that "shortcut" section.
Now, where do you say, do I define it as low priority?
In your screenshot it's the mxcl.exe, that is being defined as low prio. That does work, I know that... but no other application works by adding "-p:low"... as mentioned, I guess, this "-p" switch is a mxcl-thing but doesn't work for any other...

I thought, there might be a switch provided by the operating system that lets you do that...

Oh, ok. Sorry I misunderstood. No, I don't know of a way to do that.

Simply run the program from a bat file with:

cmd /c start /high program.exe

Change program.exe with the name of the executable
You can use /high /AboveNormal /Normal /BelowNormal or /Low to set the desired priority

jomaga wrote:Simply run the program from a bat file with:

cmd /c start /high program.exe

Change program.exe with the name of the executable
You can use /high /AboveNormal /Normal /BelowNormal or /Low to set the desired priority

Aaahhhh.. finally.... thanks a lot jomega, now I can run everything on low level...

Thank you too Bubbaloo for trying