Priority of applications and threads, when Windows apps are minimized to the tas

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Subject:Priority of applications and threads, when Windows apps are minimized to the tas
Posted by: Warren Postma (…@tekran.com)
Date:Tue, 31 Mar 2009

We have a critical control task, which users may minimize, but I want
the task to stay higher priority than other tasks.  What we observe is
that windows steals all the timeslices from minimized processes.
Is there a way to avoid this?  Do I have to use a service process
to actually get priority handling regardless of the GUI being
minimized or regular?

Warren

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