Colin
06-15-04, 02:26 PM
We've been spending a lot of time with WindowsXP recently, but I've gotten quite a few e-mails from people using Win98 who are feeling a bit left out. Well this tip is for you guys. <BR>Most users work with programs that are running in the foreground however Windows allocates resources equally to both foreground and background tasks/applications. You can set the priority higher to the foreground tasks (which should increase overall application performance) with a simple registry tweak.<BR><BR>Load up regedit (Start -> Run -> Regedit) then follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> System -> CurrentControlSet -> Services->VxD -> BIOS. Once you're there modify/create the DWORD value named CPUPriority. Now you have four options for values...<BR><BR>0 - Applications in the Foreground run in real-time mode. Be careful though, running applications in real time mode can cause the system to become unstable!<BR>1 - Foreground apps are set to run at maximum priority.<BR>2 - Foreground has higher priority than background.<BR>3 - (Default) Foreground and background are equal priority.