SD>    Q: Is it possible to disallow Windows interrupting my program ?
 SD>    -----------------------------------------------------------------
 SB> What exactly are you trying to do that is so critical it not be
 SB> desturbed?
    Horizontal scroll area for displaying advertisments/messages that
    are going to be mixed with TV signal and broadcasted.
 SB> windows tasks will not get any time. Second, if you are using Delphi
 SB> 2.0, you must remember that Win95 and WinNT are multitrheaded which
 SB> means other stuff will be running.
    Well, I have found the solution - it is so selfdocumenting:
     curProcess := GetCurrentProcess();
     SetPriorityClass(curProcess, REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS);
     curThread := GetCurrentThread();
     SetThreadPriority(curThread, THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL);
    There is a huge remark in WIN 32 API help saying that this method
    will "kill" other processes and I've found it's true: while my
    program does scroll (un-idle WHILE loop), _everything_ in
    background stops.
    Task-switching in W95 won't work, disk is quiet, mouse is dead,
    XT again!   :-)
    Srdjan
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