But honestly, how many times have you used this feature for any business apps on your Workstations or Servers? The answer is probably not much. This is an option where you can choose to boost or reduce the priority of any process, whereby adjusting the amount of CPU attention the process receives. Good morning AskPerf! If you’ve used Task Manager, you may have noticed that it allows setting an “instance-based priority”. First published on TECHNET on Jan 23, 2014