Blake Young wrote:

I am running WinXP with Seti@Home and I notice that it's using 100% of my

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when I would like for some other programs to get some idle processor time.
Is there any way to change this?

Try changing the priorities with "Task Manager". (Press ctl-esc or shift-esc ? and play)

See if there are any options with your projects to set their priority.


(Plug (;-))

Or try linux (;-)) The linux scheduler has a finer-grained priority scheme and also has the philosophy that _all_ tasks must make progress. You have a lot of control over what happens.


Good luck,
Martin