Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Process Lasso helps you rope in unruly Windows applications
by Brad Linder Jan 18th 2008
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]
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