setting higher priority to applications

You might be able to use one of the tips on this page:

<A HREF="http://www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml" target="_new">Tuning Guide for Windows NT/2000</A>

Note: The threads of a process with RealTime priority preempt the threads of all other processes, including operating system processes performing important tasks. Thus, a RealTime priority process that executes for more than a very brief interval can cause disk caches not to flush or cause the mouse to be unresponsive. This can also lock up the system, which would be undesirable while editing a track with Acid. Because of this, I wouldn't set an application to run with anything more CPU intensive than High priority.

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