PCTechTalk - View Single Post - Setting Priority on Start up for Processes?

Sinkalip · 04-24-2003, 12:06 PM

I can definitely live w/o it, Cirga lol

Barz:Thanks. We just figured out the task manager priority, but were hoping that there was a much EASIER way. The problem is when we run a DOS app on a remote system, the program NTDVM hogs most of the CPU, leaving very little for Symantec's bloatware to refresh the screen. On an XP machine, we are talking approx 3-5 minute screen refresh times. This can turn about 20 mins of actual work into hours.

In NT you can set it in the system properties, perfomance options. There is a slider for apps & backgroud. If you slide it toward background, it seems to work for NT.

But on XP/2k machines, the performance option doesn't help. It's one or the other and neither seem to work. We can use the task manager, but it's a pain to have to change it every time we need to run a remote DOS app, especially with the process moving around in the task manager, accompanied with the lag the process causes.

It's amazing to see the program, NTDVM, hog 98% of a 2.4 Ghz processor

On that note, anyone know of a good PC Anywhere type application with file tranfer capability? If only VNC had file x-fer.

04-24-2003, 12:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sinkalip Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Under the bed Posts: 62	I can definitely live w/o it, Cirga lol Barz:Thanks. We just figured out the task manager priority, but were hoping that there was a much EASIER way. The problem is when we run a DOS app on a remote system, the program NTDVM hogs most of the CPU, leaving very little for Symantec's bloatware to refresh the screen. On an XP machine, we are talking approx 3-5 minute screen refresh times. This can turn about 20 mins of actual work into hours. In NT you can set it in the system properties, perfomance options. There is a slider for apps & backgroud. If you slide it toward background, it seems to work for NT. But on XP/2k machines, the performance option doesn't help. It's one or the other and neither seem to work. We can use the task manager, but it's a pain to have to change it every time we need to run a remote DOS app, especially with the process moving around in the task manager, accompanied with the lag the process causes. It's amazing to see the program, NTDVM, hog 98% of a 2.4 Ghz processor On that note, anyone know of a good PC Anywhere type application with file tranfer capability? If only VNC had file x-fer.