some expert lotto functions may take very long time to finish. for example running ticket generator with a complex filter for a keno lottery may take hours or even days - depending on input parameters.
during this time expert lotto consumes all cpu resources so other applications and the operating system becomes very slow and unresponsive.
however there's a trick to leave expert lotto running its long task in background and keep using other applications comfortably:
- open windows task manager ([m]ctrl+alt+delete[/m], then button 'task manager' or right click the task bar and select 'task manager')
- find expert lotto in the applications tab, right click on it and select 'go to process'
- you'll be forwarded to processes tab and 'javaw.exe' process will be highlighted.
- right click this item and select 'set priority - belownormal' or 'set priority - low'
expert lotto will keep running but other application will get more cpu resources so they will be more responsive.
when you exit expert lotto and start it again, it will come up with the default execution priority so you don't have change anything back.
btw, this trick applies to any application with long running tasks, e.g. video capture/encoding, mp3 audio conversion etc.