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ITask::GetPriority

HRESULT GetPriority(
    DWORD * pdwPriority
);

Retrieves the priority for the task.

• Returns one of the following values:

  S_OK	The operation was successful.
  E_INVALIDARG	The arguments are not valid.
  E_OUTOFMEMORY	Not enough memory is available.

pdwPriority

Address of a DWORD that contains the priority for the current task. The priority value determines the frequency and length of a process' time slices. This applies only to Windows NT and has no effect in Windows 95. It is taken from the CreateProcess priority class and can be one of the following flags (in descending order of thread scheduling priority):

REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS

HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS

NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS

IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS

See also ITask::SetPriority

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