Process Lasso helps you rope in unruly Windows applications

Posted Jan 18th 2008 5:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

If you're tired of having Windows applications eat up all of your system resources and lock up or crash your computer it might be time to get a new computer, or at least some more RAM. But if you don't fancy spending the cash, you might want to check out Process Lasso, a free tool to help you keep runaway programs under control.

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

You can achieve some of the same results with Process Tamer, an application we looked at a couple of years ago. But Process Lasso is far more customizable than Process Tamer.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: process-lasso, process-tamer

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-20-2008 @ 8:22AM

Crazylink said...

I've been using it for a while now, but don't recommend it as a task manager.

1-21-2008 @ 10:10AM

Rajesh said...

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/

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