What is Process Priority?
PowerKey allows you to establish the priority of the process. Mainly this feature was designed to give the user an opportunity to perform a faster wipe/encryption of data by selecting higher priority. However one can also decrease the process priority if there are some other programs launched to speed up their work. You can choose any of the following priority classes: REALTIME PRIORITY – Specify this class for a process that has the highest possible priority. The threads of the process preempt the threads of all other processes, including operating system processes performing important tasks. For example, a real-time process that executes for more than a very brief interval can cause disk caches not to flush or cause the mouse to be unresponsive. HIGH PRIORITY – Specify this class for a process that performs time-critical tasks that must be executed immediately. The threads of the process preempt the threads of normal or idle priority class processes. An example is Windows Task List,
