App Priority Keys for Windows

Set app priority from a Stream Deck key

To set a program's priority from a Stream Deck, add App Priority Keys for Windows and press a key: it puts the Task Manager priority setting on your Stream Deck, such as high for a game or low for a heavy background app. A key can set the priority again each time the program starts, so your choice stays after the program restarts, and another press puts the old priority back.

Get it on the Elgato Marketplace

Stream Deck plugin · Works on Windows 10 or later with the Stream Deck app 6.9 or later.

What you can do

• Set the app in front: Front App Priority shows the app in the active window and its priority (LOW to HIGH). Press to set yours, again to put it back.
• Set a program you choose: App Priority does the same for every process with that file name.
• Keep your choice: with Automatic on, App Priority sets the priority again at each start of the program, after a wait you choose (2 to 30 seconds).
• Put everything back: Restore Priorities counts what was changed and puts it all back with one press.
• Know what is set: keys show the priority read back from Windows, and the priority from before is remembered.
• Safe choices only: Realtime is left out, since it can freeze the PC.
• Protected by design: the Windows processes on its list (explorer, dwm and others), the desktop and taskbar, and the Stream Deck app are left untouched.
• Runs on your PC: nothing is logged or sent. English and Japanese.

How it works

1. Install the plugin from the Elgato Marketplace. In the Stream Deck app, drag Front App Priority onto a key.
2. In the key's settings, choose the priority the key should set (High unless you change it).
3. Press the key. It shows the new priority with a blue frame and the old one below it; press again to put it back.
4. For a game, add an App Priority key, choose the game's program and turn on Automatic so it is set at each start.

A priority tells Windows which program goes first when the processor is busy with more work than it can do at the same time.

Get App Priority Keys for Windows on the Elgato Marketplace

Questions

Limits

• Windows only (Windows 10 or later). Not for Mac.
• Higher priority alone does not make a program faster. High can make other programs stutter.
• App Priority changes every process with that file name. Setting it at each start works while its key is visible, and starts over when Stream Deck restarts.
• Programs run as administrator or protected by anti-cheat may refuse.
• Choosing which processor cores a program uses is not in this version.