How to Make a Program Start at High Priority (Windows)

Make programs run faster with this simple fix

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Last Updated: April 18, 2025

Do your programs run more slowly than you'd like? It's a pretty common problem, but few know how to fix it. If you run them high-priority, everything goes a lot faster. Keep reading for simple instructions.

Setting an Application to High Priority: Quick Steps

Open “Notepad” from the Start menu in the lower left corner.
Type: Start “program name” /high “c:\program files\ program location\program.exe” but put the actual program name.
Click “File,” then “Save As” and name the note as a .bat file.
Right-click the file and choose “Create Shortcut.” Select “Properties.”
Click the “Layout” tab.
Set your screen preferences, then click “Ok.”
Run the program as usual—it should be faster now.

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Start “program name” /high “c:\program files\ program location\program.exe”. Change replace "program name" with the program you want to open with high priority (but keep the quotation marks). We use “windows internet explorer” in the example.

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Go to File and chose Save As.
Save the file as “iexplorer.bat” (or substitute whatever the title of your program is) and chose All Files from the “Save as type” option.
Right click to file and chose the Create Shortcut option.
Set screen buffer size, width and height to 1. Set Windows size width and height to 1. Set Windows position left to -487 and top to 0. Click on OK.
You should notice that it goes faster.