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• TextMyPC 232 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 2:08 PM

  Changing the priority of Firefox will have 0 effect on WGT. You see plugin-container? That's WGT.

  -TMPC

• TextMyPC 232 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 2:13 PM

  YankeeJim:

  SC is right on, misstery. I found this looking for an answer to your question.

  http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Process-Priorities-in-Windows-Task-Manager

  from that.....

  • these priority names are intuitively obvious; they mean just what they say.
  • the priority level starts out at "Normal", and stays there unless YOU change it.
  • the higher (or lower) you set the program's 'priority', the more (or fewer) system resources will be allocated to it, so it will run faster (or slower) than it did before. "Low", for example, is fine for a program running in background that you do not need to have finish up soon, so that more resources are freed up. "Realtime" is best for something that absolutely has to have maximum resources right now!

  Smart guy. You don't allocate "to" anything. The application "requests" allocations. Changing the priority simply means whose "request" for allocation is granted first. It doesn't make anything faster or slower. It makes it smoother or more reliable.

  You pretentious kids crack me up.

  -TMPC

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 2:32 PM

  TextMyPC:

  You don't allocate "to" anything.

  All this time I thought you understood English and could read. I guess not. The quote referred to what the PC does when you change priority with regards to the allocation of resources to a program.

  Here's a definition of allocate for you. Note the use of the word "to."

  –verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

  1.

  to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.

  2.

  to fix the place of; locate.

   distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis" or..

  your PC allocates resources to the program.

  If you want to come across as genius-boy, get it right.  :-)

   

• TextMyPC 232 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 2:48 PM

  You're not allocating "to" a loaf of bread?

  Kid, allocations in PC terms are physical memory addresses. A program will ask the processor for allocations to fill with data. This is called requesting allocations.

  You're really going to keep going aren't you? I've been a software engineer for a long long time. I might understand a deeper level of the frameworks than most. Can you please just take this as a lesson learned instead babbling on with what you pretend to understand?

  -TMPC

• TextMyPC 232 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 2:55 PM

  Readers,

  This thread is a perfect example of why these 3rd party programs are developed. Yes you can change priority in task manager, but setting the priority of the wrong item won't give you the desired results. i.e. setting priority to firefox instead of the Flash/WGT plugin. Not only is this fruitless, it can be dangerous.

  It is much more reliable, safe, and efficient to use a tried and true program than to take the advice of a cashier who trolls the forums and can't play the game well to begin with.

  -TMPC

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 2:57 PM

  TextMyPC:

  Can you please just take this as a lesson learned instead babbling on with what you pretend to understand?

  LOL.Looks like you missed out on your English lessons. Reading and comprehension must not have been one of your strengths, boy wonder. You allocate resources to something. Something that requests allocation wants something given to it. 

  FWIW there was nothing to learn in any of your posts.  :-D

• TextMyPC 232 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2011 3:08 PM

  YankeeJim:

  TextMyPC:

  Can you please just take this as a lesson learned instead babbling on with what you pretend to understand?

  LOL.Looks like you missed out on your English lessons. Reading and comprehension must not have been one of your strengths, boy wonder. You allocate resources to something. Something that requests allocation wants something given to it. 

  FWIW there was nothing to learn in any of your posts.  :-D

  You win. You're right. I'm wrong. Thanks for your participation.

• SicAudio 6 Posts

  Fri, Jan 7 2011 7:24 AM

  been a software engineer or in the IT field my entire life TMPC,  well over 27 years...

   

  I work at HP in Fort collins Colorado...

   

  you are correct that a 3rd party program can do it easily and "most" of the time it is safe, but that program does exactly the same thing as what Windows OS already does....

   

  it just makes it more intuitive is all....  for any retard that can click a mouse if you will..

   

  so far all I have seen ( while your idea had merit the delivery when questioned was severely juvenile ) is alot of chest thumping from a wanna be " engineer"

   

  so go back and look at the source coding of your lil' "3rd party" app and tell me it is any dif than I said...

   

  Windows does the exact same thing ....  it allocates and prioritizes the request to fill a cache with bits of DATA  and you can manually change it very simply with a lil reading w/o jeopardizing the safety of your computer to a 3rd party DL that may or may not have adverse effects on your PC...

• TextMyPC 232 Posts

  Fri, Jan 7 2011 2:13 PM

  You're right. I'm wrong. Thanks for participating.

  TMPC

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Fri, Jan 7 2011 2:24 PM

  The only advantage a 3rd party program offers in this situation is the option to start with the computer and reset these priorities. Windows will lose these settings as soon as the program is closed.

  SicAudio,

  are you aware of a registry mod or some other way to get windows to remember a priority or affinity settings, so that it is configured automatically at the time the program is run?