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How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?

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Mar 15, 202661036 views
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Process Explorer is able to show the effective IO priority of a given thread, but not change it. Seeing as IO priority support is a comparatively new feature, most programs don't set their own IO priorities. It appears that by default the IO priority is derived from the thread priority (rather than…

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Fix for: How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?

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I developed this after seeing nobody bothered with it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iopriority/ (open source) This program is able to set the I/O priority of a process, and all threads are being affected by it immediately. It's pretty easy to mo…

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