Process Lasso

Process Lasso is a unique new technology that will, amongst other things, improve your PC's responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without restraint -- leading to freezes and hangs. Process Lasso's ProBalance technology intelligently adjusts the priority of running programs so that badly behaved programs won't interfere with your ability to use the computer! In addition, Process Lasso offers capabilities such as default process priorities and affinities, termination of disallowed processes, instance count limits, a system responsiveness graph, logging of processes, and much more! Once you install Process Lasso, it'll just start working. More advanced users can tweak the configuration, but you needn't touch anything to have it instantly improve your system responsiveness and prevent stalls in high load situations.

Features:

* Prevent processes from monopolizing the CPU(s)
* ProBalance dynamic priority optimization
* Apply persistent priorities and CPU affinities
* Foreground boosting
* Limit number of program instances
* Disallow programs from running
* Keep processes running (auto-restart)
* Unique system responsiveness graph
* Event logging
* Supports multiple users
* Stand-alone process management engine
* Extremely low resource use
* Prevent PC sleep for designated processes
* Enter High Performance power scheme for designated processes
* Differentiate between svchost.exe instances
* Simple, efficient, and dedicated to a single purpose
* Much more...

Graphical Interface Features:

* Basic task manager capabilities for convienence
* Displays per-process CPU history
* Change process settings and rules
* Act on multiple processes at once
* System tray icon with notifications
* Almost no resource consumption when minimized
* Does its job without fancy graphics to dazzle you

Revision history for v3.70

* Addition.Core: Now supports rules on specific service groups hosted by svchost.exe instances
* Addition.Core: Added new feature to prevent PC sleep when designated processes are running
* Addition.Core: Added new feature to put the PC into the High Performance power scheme when designated processes are running
* Addition.Core: Add copyright log message
* Addition.GUI: Shows distinctive group names for services hosted by svchost.exe instances
* Addition.GUI: Added private working set metric (hidden by default)
* Addition.GUI: Added new feature to prevent PC sleep when selected processes are running
* Addition.GUI: Added informative tooltips to processes list (hover over process name)
* Addition.GUI: Auto-select and make visible process that corresponds to the user selected log entry
* Addition.GUI: Added menu option to switch the active system power scheme, for convenience. Available in Vista+ only.
* Addition.GUI: Added forced mode toggle to system tray
* Addition.GUI: Added 'Show graph legend' to view menu (you can still click on the legend to toggle its visibility)
* Addition.InstallHelper: Added helpful tooltips to the configuration dialogs
* Addition.InstallHelper: Tweaks to the dialogs
* Addition.Installer: The 32-bit installer can now automatically download and run the 64-bit installer when necessary
* Fix.Core: Fixed issue where restraining via only a CPU affinity change (no priority adjustment) wouldn't always work
* Fix.GUI: Fixed delay when switching between lower view tabs
* Fix.GUI: Fixed log view could have missing entries after it exceeded 500 list items and a log resize hadn't occurred at any point (rare)
* Change.Updater: Changed product name shown from 'ProcessLasso' to 'Process Lasso'
* Change.GUI: Advanced tools that require permission elevation can now be launched directly from the unelevated GUI
* Change.GUI: Reduced total stack use
* Change.GUI: Made custom message boxes more narrow
* Change.GUI: A few misc. code tweaks and rewrites
* Change.GUI: Some misc. UI performance enhancements
* Change.GUI: Rewrote forced mode menu item to something more clear
* Change.Core: Re-wrote automatic gaming mode implementation so that it engages or disengages automatically upon user configuration change
* Change.Core: Switched to NT native session ID resolution
* Change.Core: Disallow multiple log events in the same millisecond (by incrementing time), for correct sorting
* Change.Core: When an actively restrained process is marked to be excluded from ProBalance, any adjustments made to that process are immediately reverted
* Change.All: Converted entire project to UNICODE (previously only portions were UNICODE)
* Change.All: Removed COM interface to process management engine (more optimal, less memory use, can run without install, and no interference from registry cleaners)
* Change.All: All additions and changes from minor version updates to v3.64
* Change.InstallHelper: Renamed auto-start registry value
* Change.Localization: Updated Russian, PTBR, Serbian, Chinese (simplified), and French translations
* Removal.Installer: Remove deprecated processcontrol.dll and common.dll

OS: All editions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, and Windows 7

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