I have an older PC running WIN 2K, and I can only play videos on Windows
Media Player when I give it a higher CPU base priority thru the task manager.
Is there any way to set
this permanently, say by changing some setting in the registry, so that
whenever it loads it gives itself higher priority? I have noticed that some
other programs do.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:41:20 -0800, "Mike MIlano" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have an older PC running WIN 2K, and I can only play videos on Windows
>Media Player when I give it a higher CPU base priority thru the task manager.
>Is there any way to set
>this permanently, say by changing some setting in the registry, so that
>whenever it loads it gives itself higher priority? I have noticed that some
>other programs do.

You can change you shortcut to start a batch and in the batch start media play with the
start /high command.
See tip 364 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

Too technical for me. I could not figure out what to do. Sorry.

"Jerold Schulman" wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:41:20 -0800, "Mike MIlano" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I have an older PC running WIN 2K, and I can only play videos on Windows
> >Media Player when I give it a higher CPU base priority thru the task manager.
> >Is there any way to set
> >this permanently, say by changing some setting in the registry, so that
> >whenever it loads it gives itself higher priority? I have noticed that some
> >other programs do.
>
> You can change you shortcut to start a batch and in the batch start media play with the
> start /high command.
> See tip 364 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
>
>
> Jerold Schulman
> Windows Server MVP
> JSI, Inc.
> http://www.jsiinc.com
>

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:21:04 -0800, "Mike MIlano" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Too technical for me. I could not figure out what to do. Sorry.
>
>"Jerold Schulman" wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:41:20 -0800, "Mike MIlano" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >I have an older PC running WIN 2K, and I can only play videos on Windows
>> >Media Player when I give it a higher CPU base priority thru the task manager.
>> >Is there any way to set
>> >this permanently, say by changing some setting in the registry, so that
>> >whenever it loads it gives itself higher priority? I have noticed that some
>> >other programs do.
>>
>> You can change you shortcut to start a batch and in the batch start media play with the
>> start /high command.
>> See tip 364 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
>>
>>
>> Jerold Schulman
>> Windows Server MVP
>> JSI, Inc.
>> http://www.jsiinc.com
>>

Copy the following to notepad:

@echo off
start /high "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"

Save the file as WMP.txt
rename the file to WMP.bat
Create a minimized shortcut to WMP.bat and give it the Media Player Icon.

When you click on this shortcut, Media Player will run at high priority.


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com