c# questions

2. How can the priority of a thread be set? What is the effect(s) of changing a threads priority?

3. There are at least four plausible reasons why a thread might be alive but still not be running. What are these reasons? What can be done about a live non-running thread? For example, can such threads be detected?

4. What events can cause a thread to die? Are there ways to guarantee that a thread eventually will die?