> The only thing Windows needs is that in
> the Task Manager you could set the priority of running tasks. It would be
> a question of a few mouse clicks (eg. if there would be a spinbutton or a
> dropdown menu alongside each task in the list).

It's there already (since XP), right click on the process in task manager 
and choose "Set Priority".  But as already said, this changes the priority 
of the whole process.  What I assume most people want is the GUI thread to 
be fully responsive, and the rendering thread to be on low priority.  I 
don't see an easy way for the task manager to handle this (unless the 
program could "expose" certain threads to the OS that are flagged with names 
and then show up in task manager).  It seems simpler that the program itself 
handles which of its threads can have the priority changed.

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