Subject: > High-priority Emacs

From: David Biesack <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:22:45 -0400

> >    SetPriorityClass (GetCurrentProcess(), HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS);
> 
> Is there some reason why the priority must be fixed at COMPILE time?
> Can't it be set at program load time, or dynamically changed while executing?

Sure. You can change it from NT 4.0's Task Manager. Select
the process view, RMB on the Emacs process, and Set priority.

>From the command line, you can do

  nice <emacspid> HIGH

to change it to high. I got nice.exe from, gee, where did that come
from? Oh, ya, follow

  http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/tools/Maintnce.htm#top

to

   ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/winnt/misc/littles.zip

Too bad Emacs' (process-id) function can't return the Emacs
process id... you have to use the ps.exe from littles.zip to find it.
I'll leave that as an exercise :-)