no, it uses whatever CPU cycles are available...
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"Stewart Berman" <sabmsdn@saberman.com> wrote in message
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> Is there anyway to make Windows Movie Maker run as a background task while
> it's saving a movie?
>
> I tried using Task Manager to set its priority to low but it still hogs
> the machine. and stops
> anything else from performing reasonably.