Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Process Lasso helps you rope in unruly Windows applications
by Brad Linder Jan 18th 2008 at 5:00PM
Process Lasso does a couple of things. It can sit in your system tray and do nothing at all until an application meets certain conditions, like eating up more than 35% of your CPU cycles. Then Process Lasso goes and lowers that proces's priority. But you can also set it to do a bunch of other things including:
- Limit applications so that they only use one CPU on multi-core systems
- Set an application to run at a certain priority every time they run
- Configure the programs that launch on startup
- Kill currently running processes
- Log all executed processes
[via Lifehacker]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Crazylink said 8:22AM on 1-20-2008
I've been using it for a while now, but don't recommend it as a task manager.
Reply
Rajesh said 10:10AM on 1-21-2008
I read something better...where you can actually control cpus in multi core systems...
http://techblissonline.com/get-more-performance-from-dual-processors-with-task-assignment-manager/
Reply