Free to process software for windows

Process Lasso 3.62 is a brilliant 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 (Process Balance) technology intelligently adjusts the priority of running programs so that badly behaved or overly active processes won't interfere with your ability to use the computer!

Process Lasso also offers an assortment of ways to take full control of how your CPUs are allocated to running programs. You can choose at what priority processes should run, and which CPUs should be assigned to them. You can also disallow certain programs from running, log all programs run, keep programs running, and SO 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.

For network admins, Proces Lasso works wonderfully on Terminal Servers and in multi-user environments. Have many clients that have been using Process Lasso on their Terminal Servers for years. Best of all, Process Lasso is written in native C++, not .NET. This means it consumes very few system resources - considerably less than any similar software.

Major Features:

1. Prevent processes from monopolizing the CPU(s)
2. ProBalance dynamic priority optimization
3. CPU throttling (new)
4. Save process priorities for future instances
5. Save process CPU affinities for future instances
6. Gaming mode
7. Foreground boosting
8. Limit allowed program instances
9. Disallow programs from running
10. Log all programs run
11. Keep select processes running (auto-restart)
12. System responsiveness graph
13. Stand-alone core engine
14. Available in x86-32 and x86-64 builds
15. Extremely low RAM and CPU use
16. Graphical Interface Features
    • Track total CPU usage, system responsiveness, and memory load
    • Show individual CPU history of selected processes
    • Easy to use right-click menu system allows for modification of process rules and status
    • Select and act on multiple processes at once (i.e. terminate several processes at once)
    • Optionally show balloon tips to notify you when actions are taken
    • Unique system responsiveness calculation and graph display
    • Sleeplike mode reduces resource consumption when the main window isn't visible
    • GUI is not required for process management, it can be completely closed
17. Core Engine Features
    • Stand-alone capability
    • Only 1-3 MB of RAM used in typical cases
    • ProBalance automatically manages process priorities to improve system responsiveness and prevent freezes
    • Configure processes to always start at a desired priority and/or CPU affinity
    • Auto-terminate undesirable processes
    • Limit the number of instances a process can have
    • Fine tune NT scheduler settings with TweakScheduler
    • Fine-tune Vista Multimedia Scheduler with VistaMMSC
    • Written in C++ for all the performance benefits of native code

Enhancements:

• Addition.Core: Added the ability to automatically restart select processes if they terminate (keeps them running always)s)
• Addition.Core: Added new 'lowest' throttle level
• Addition.Core: Extended NT Native code to include support for process command lines
• Addition.GUI: Added facilitating UI code to 'keep running' processes (dialog, context menu, rule indication)
• Addition.GUI: Added back Modules tab (removed a year ago as streamlined the product)
• Addition.GUI: Added option to automatically restart the core engine if it is terminated for any reason
• Addition.GUI: Added new 'lowest' throttle level - now four tiers: highest, moderate, low, lowest
• Addition.GUI: Added system uptime to status bar
• Addition.GUI: Added command line column to process listview
• Addition.GUI: Added keyboard shortcut 'Del' (delete key) - it will terminate all selected process(es)
• Addition.GUI: When adding process to 'keep running' via the context menu, the current command line is also configured
• Addition.GUI: Add improved command line support to process restart capability (for both single and multi-select)
• Change.Core: Tweaks to ProBalance parameters
• Change.GUI: CPU affinity menu items now disabled for single-CPU systems
• Change.GUI: Some cosmetic and usability enhancements
• Change.GUI: Swapped working set and commit size default column locations
• Change.GUI: Improved message box appearance and functionality by updating to XMessageBox 1.10 (by Hans Dietrich) and migrating customizations to his code
• Change.GUI: Changed 'Exit GUI on close' to 'close to system tray' (its more understandable inverse)
• Change.GUI: Rewrote days installed tracking code
• Change.GUI: Some tweaks to keyboard shortcuts
• Change.Build: Tweaks to compiler optimization settings
• Fix.Core: Improved handling of an extremely rare error returned when querying process information from the NT kernel
• Fix.Core: Fixed possible issue with case sensitivity on pathname comparisons in disallowed process exceptions (allowed list)
• Fix.GUI: Fix for a theoretical rare crash that could have occurred during startup
• Fix.GUI: Fixed some missing MessageBox icons in x64 build
• Post-release updates (minor maintenance):
• • Fix.GUI: Fixed system tray balloon text under Windows 2000, where the lower maximum text size caused truncation
  • Change.GUI: Some grammatical adjustments (translations already updated in-house)
  • Change.GUI: Added 'do not show again' checkbox to translation out of date warning shown for a couple languages
  • Change.Localization: Updated Serbian translation
  • Addition.Localization: Added Italian translation
  • Fix.Core: Adjusted CPU throttling code to better handle critical errors
  • Fix.GUI: Fixed issue where throttling level may not have been indicated in rules column
  • Addition.GUI: Added a '*' to process priorities to indicate whether or not Windows thread priority boosting is enabled for that process
  • Addition.Installer: Added new graphical CPU Eater application (untranslated), launched by existing 'Run CPU Eater for 60 seconds' shortcut
  • Change.Core: Change default ProBalance configuration so that it is better derived from the system hardware
  • Change.GUI: Added multi-process selection context menu item to control Windows dynamic thread priority boosting
  • Change.GUI: Renamed single process context menu item 'Priority Boost' to 'Windows dynamic thread priority boosts enabled'
  • Change.GUI: Other minor code tweaks
  • Change.GUI: Made warnings about CPU Throttling more descriptive
  • Fix.GUI: Fixed Italian update checker translation
  • Change.CPUEater: Updated included CPU Eater demo app to latest build
  • Change.Localization: Updated Serbian translation
  • Fix.GUI: Some adjustments to new external process command line support that first appeared in v3.62
  • Change.GUI: Backported from beta - don't show 'buy now' button in XP and W2K, pending redraw of button
  • Fix.GUI: Backported from beta - fixed lower (log) listview header disappearing briefly in XP
  • Fix.GUI: Backported from beta - fixed log listview not using all available space (had too large of an edge buffer)
  • Fix.Installer: Backported from beta - fixed /language=x command line parameter not working

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