Guest metremeter@yahoo.co.uk Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Hi, I have certain scheduled tasks running on my work machine. They often hog the processor causing my machine to become unresponsive to the point of almost locking up. I'd like to run them at lower priority using the start command (either "start /belownormal" or "start /low"), but this doesn't seem to work. Typing this at the command line:- start /belownormal Y:\Vim\vim62\gvim.exe seems to run it fine, but if I put the same thing in the "run" line of a scheduled task's properties window, it says "could not start" in Scheduled Tasks' status column. Any thoughts? Thanks, - MM
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Re: Reducing Priority of Scheduled Tasks via Start? <metremeter@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:50b6b0a3-8782-48dd-8f7f-0bddc0771cdf@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I have certain scheduled tasks running on my work machine. They often > hog the processor causing my machine to become unresponsive to the > point of almost locking up. > > I'd like to run them at lower priority using the start command (either > "start /belownormal" or "start /low"), but this doesn't seem to work. > Typing this at the command line:- > > start /belownormal Y:\Vim\vim62\gvim.exe > > seems to run it fine, but if I put the same thing in the "run" line of > a scheduled task's properties window, it says "could not start" in > Scheduled Tasks' status column. > > Any thoughts? Thanks, > > - MM This happens because "start" is not an external command. It is a command internal to the command processor cmd.exe, same as cd, del, copy. You must therefore precede it with cmd.exe: cmd /c start /belownormal ... ... Whether this will work in reducing the priority of the scheduled task I do not know.
Guest metremeter@yahoo.co.uk Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 Re: Reducing Priority of Scheduled Tasks via Start? On 11 Sep, 23:17, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote: > This happens because "start" is not an external command. It is a command > internal to the command processor cmd.exe, same as cd, del, copy. You must > therefore precede it with cmd.exe: > cmd /c start /belownormal ... ... > Whether this will work in reducing the priority of the scheduled task I do > not know. Aah, I see... doh! I should have thought of that... thanks. :) - MM
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