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    What do I do when it tells me I am not an admin when I'm trying to change priorities?
    Nikita Manahov
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    That means that you are not logged in as the "Administrator" user, and/or don't have Administrator permissions. To change process priorities, you must have Administrator permissions.
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    How do I get administrator permissions?
    CB Anderson
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    Right-click on Task Manager during Step 3, and there should be an option to run as administrator.
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    It says "Access Denied" whenever I try changing priority.
    Community Answer
    You might be changing priority of some process running with System privileges (e.g. csrss.exe).
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    What would be the difference between Realtime and High priority?
    Community Answer
    Realtime means "give this process all available system resources' (may cause BSoD such as CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED), and high priority means "give this process any system resources that are not predicted to be used by another process in the future".
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