Win7 WTS tasks run at a lower I/O priority and may run MUCH slower

[MtheK]

FYI

  I was having a performance issue w/1 of my MASM programs running
under WTS (Windows Task Scheduler) doing many 'INVOKE FindNextFile's.
In my case, it was SEVERLY dragged down by 2 normal I/O-intensive
tasks because, per Process Explorer, its' I/O Priority was LOW
compared to the other tasks which were NORMAL. It ran 600 times(!)
LONGER than expected!

  Fortunately, I found a fix here:

https://bdbits.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/setting-a-scheduled-task-process-priority/

This worked great. Instead of running 30 minutes, it took about a minute.
Still slow due to the others' interference, but WAY BETTER and tolerable!
Strange that this is the default, and not changeable via the WTS GUI?

[jj2007]

I've noticed that programs requiring file i/o are often slow on Win7, and much worse on Win8, as compared to XP. Interesting find :t