Thanks James. Will give it a whirl.

>Albert
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>That is the same as setting priority to low. In my experience, you will see the cpu usage still at 80 or 90% but as soon as you start running another program the cpu usage for the dos program will drop significantly. I think if you try and run that way for a while, you will find other programs will run satisfactorily.
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>>Hi James,
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>>If that's the same as setting the priority on this app to "Low" from the task mananger, it helps but only a bit - in my test, it dropped cpu usage from the mid to high 90's to the 80's. Thanks anyhow.
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>>Albert
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>>>Albert
>>>You can use the following:
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start /low foxprox.exe yourapp.

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