how to make a service start with Realtime or high priority

[jeremymacmull]

hey ive got two programs / services on my computer that start up automatically when i start the computer

these are my mousedriver lwbwheel.exe and the inspiron 8000 temperature and fan control utility i8kfangui.exe

when my computer starts they are in the task manager but as priority normal.

what i do currently is i go to task manager and change the priority of these manually to high or realtime. this is annoying

what i want is them to start up automatically with priority realtime or high (realtime preffered)

ive got win 2k sp3

please help

JEREMY

[UGAthecat]

If the utilities are just running automatically at startup from the registry or from the startup group, just modify the command line for the program so that it is "Start /high <program path,name,etc>"
For example: "start /high c:\compaq\i8kfangui.exe"
I don't recall right now if you can modify the command line like this for real services, but it would be worth looking at services in the control panel to see, I can't right now as i'm on a old NT 4 system.
You can start apps in realtime too by replacing /high with /realtime, but I sure would suggest not using realtime

[jeremymacmull]

Thanks

Thats exactly what i wanted to find out

Why would u suggest not using realtime. The two services startup from the registry and are my mouse driver and the thermal control app for my laptop

JEREMY

[jeremymacmull]

Um it did not work

The only registy entry i have for LWBWHEEL.exe (mouse driver) is

under the run folder it is lwbwheel and then the key is the path c:\program files\browser mouse\lwbwheel.exe

ive tried /high at the beginning and at the end of the sentence no luck with or without the "" ie /high "c:/pr...." or "c:/...." /high

ive also tried -high

sorry but could you tell me the exact syntax for starting up this proggie in high or realtime

thanks

JEREMY

[Ramirez]

Here we go.

CMD.EXE /C "Start /High /B C:\DON.EXE"

Possible command line parameters
/low
/normal
/high
/realtime

I've tested it and its work very nicely here (win2kpro) but I really dunno whether you'll able to start a service with it.

Btw: using realtime is indeed a bad idea; this is really belongs to the system critical processes only.
P.S
What the hell happened to your avatar? :D