Change of priority not possible on Win 7 x64

[bkjhkjgjjkk4]

I wanted to set FFS to low priority, because the system became quite laggy.
Task manager told me "access denied" even though I have admin rights?!

[Zenju]

Changing the CPU priorities wouldn't cure your file I/O bottleneck anyway, but FFS offers an option to help out:
[404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/support-requests/136/]

[bkjhkjgjjkk4]

Well, in fact the cpu is the bottleneck in this case, because the one drive is encrypted. But I figured out that the cpu workload is not associated to a process at all.... so you're right, this wont help. but why does ffs prevent changing the priority - and how?

[Zenju]

It's probably not the FFS process but some system process that is handling the encryption and using most of the CPU. This is the case for Truecrypt, if that's the tool you're using. About the "access denied" this is not by FFS but you are likely starting your process explorer or task manager without admin rights.