HANDLE hProcess = GetCurrentProcess();
// Get the priority class for your process,commonly ,this value is 32(#define NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS 0x00000020)
DWORD dwPriorityClass = GetPriorityClass(hProcess);
// Set the high priority class for the specified process
SetPriorityClass(hProcess, HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS);
Platform SDK: DLLs, Processes, and Threads
Process Security and Access Rights
Windows NT/Windows 2000 security enables you to control access to process objects. For more information about security, see Access-Control Model.
You can specify a security descriptor for a process when you call the CreateProcess, CreateProcessAsUser, or CreateProcessWithLogonW function. To retrieve a process's security descriptor, call the GetSecurityInfo function. To change a process's security descriptor, call the SetSecurityInfo function.
notice to the last sentence ,it says that you can call "GetSecurityInfo" function to figure out your problem.