What is the 'realtime' process priority setting for?
From what I've read in the past, you're encouraged not to change the priority of your windows applications programmatically, and if you do, you should never change them to 'realtime'. What does the 'realtime' process priority setting do, compared to 'High', and 'Above Normal'? Larry Osterman A realtime priority thread can never be pre-empted by timer interrupts and runs at a higher priority than any other thread in the system. As such a CPU bound realtime priority thread can totally ruin a machine. Creating realtime priority threads requires a privilege ( SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege ) so