Author: William Penn
Date: 07:52:32 01/08/05
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On January 08, 2005 at 10:34:56, William Penn wrote: >How to start the Fritz/Shredder8 GUI at "BelowNormal" process priority > >This works with Windows XP. It may work with some prior windows versions too, >but I haven't tested it. > >Copy the following 4 lines into Notepad and save as a file named "Chess.bat" in >your Windows folder: > >@echo off >cls >C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start /belownormal >C:\Progra~1\ChessB~1\ChessP~1\ChessProgram8.exe -engine >exit > >If the path to your ChessProgram8.exe is different, then modify the path above >accordingly. > >Then, make a shortcut to "Chess.bat" for your desktop, or wherever you want to >place it that's handy. > >When you start the GUI with this new shortcut, ChessProgram8.exe will >automatically run at "BelowNormal" process priority. That will make it >friendlier with your system, especially if you want to multitask. In other words >you shouldn't get any unusual delays or freezes with other software or >operations. Of course if you don't have any of those kinds of problems, then >this fix isn't needed. >WP The following line was broken by this message board's limitations: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start /belownormal C:\Progra~1\ChessB~1\ChessP~1\ChessProgram8.exe -engine That should be one long line, with a space between those two parts. You may need to turn off word wrap in Notepad too. WP
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