Assigning priority to a particular application

[jmarkey]

We have a data acquisition application, and the user
suspects that Windows 2000 "periodically goes off and does
something else in the background" causing milisecond delays
in catching the results of a monitored (by the data
acquisition program) event. We have disabled anti-virus,
disconnected from network, stopped a bunch of unnecessary ?
services. Is there any way to give a particular application
priority over all other events - i.e. system services. Or,
what are the absolute minimal services that can run without
causing problems with Windows

 

[Wouter]

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We have a data acquisition application, and the user
suspects that Windows 2000 "periodically goes off and does
something else in the background" causing milisecond delays
in catching the results of a monitored (by the data
acquisition program) event. We have disabled anti-virus,
disconnected from network, stopped a bunch of unnecessary ?
services. Is there any way to give a particular application
priority over all other events - i.e. system services. Or,
what are the absolute minimal services that can run without
causing problems with Windows

What are you trying to capture?
E.g serial port monitors need special setup to catch "every"
event.