How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?

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Published on 2010-04-29T16:49:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 16:58 UTC
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Process Explorer is able to show the effective IO priority of a given thread, but not change it. Seeing as IO priority support is a comparatively new feature, most programs don't set their own IO priorities. It appears that by default the IO priority is derived from the thread priority (rather than process priority), which Process Explorer can't modify either.

Are there any other tools out there that can help me change the IO priority of a given thread / all threads of a given process?

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