> One way to improve the performance in these circumstances is to
> reduce the minimum timeslice for low-priority processes. This will
> cause the task scheduler to be "busier" and therefore reduce the
> overall performance to some extent, but multimedia type
> applications will coexist much more happily with compute-intensive
> tasks if this is done.
> 
> Sorry, I have no idea how to do this, or even whether it is possible,
> in any of the versions of Windows.

There is a program that can set the quanta for programs... let me find
that durned thing...

Aha.  http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/frob.shtml

Good old sysinternals... they have the neatest tools.

Apparently that's just for NT4 machines (I think...).  For Win2K (and
presumably XP?), they have another page that tells you about the
settings on there, and to wait for a new version of Frob that works with
win2k.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/nt5.shtml

Aaron

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