Wmic process where name=”ProcessName” CALL setpriority “PriorityLevelName”įor example, if you want to change the priority for Word, you write its process name winword.exe. Step 2: In the Window type the command as given below, in the process name you write the run command process name. Step 1: To open a command prompt, type cmd in the search bar on Start Menu and press enter. This method comprises of two kinds – one for the running apps and the other for the start of the apps. Once you are done with setting the priority, close the taskbar after the process. Step 3: Confirm the popup message to change the priority. It will show you options like Real-time, High, Above Normal, Normal, Below Normal and Low. Right click on it, and go to Set Priority. You can turn it lower to free another 1% of CPU power in that case, but if you try to alt-tab for quick facebook session, you'll notice loading web browser might suddenly take 100 times longer than before.Step 2: Go to Details, from the list, choose the app which you want to change the priority for. In Windows 7 while WoW is running and nothing else, you probably see dwm.exe as having second-highest CPU usage after WoW somewhere around 1-3%, and that is Windows desktop itself.
If there are no tasks in your computer that are using excessive amount of CPU power on the background, then there's nothing to be gained from tweaking with the priority settings. Most programs have setting for it anyway inside configuration and you should never ever touch windows task manager settings unless absolutely necessary. Drop it from normal priority to idle, and WoW will get all the CPU speed it wants and the rest will be left for the video rendering. The correct way to use manual priority setting is lowering the priority of programs that are hogging a lot of it, let's say video rendering for example.
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