Publisher's Description Rewritten in Outline Format:
Description:
Process Lasso is the definitive Windows process priority optimizer and automation software. Without any configuration, it can help prevent unruly processes from monopolizing your computer. It also supports numerous advanced Watchdog rules and power profile automation.
Features:
Process Priority and CPU Affinity Optimization:
Process Settings Automation:
Power Profile Automation:
Gaming / Multimedia:
Advanced:
System Requirements:
- Automatically temporarily lower the CPU priority class and/or I/O priority of monopolizing process(es)
- Automatically temporarily change CPU affinities of monopolizing process(es)
- Hyper-Threaded core avoidance
Process Settings Automation:
- Sticky (Persistent) CPU and I/O priorities
- Sticky (Persistent) CPU affinities
- Disallowed processes
- Instance limits
- Restart selected processes if they terminate, crash, or are closed
- Restart, terminate, change CPU affinity, or trim virtual memory of processes that consume too many CPU or memory resources (e.g. restart a process that has a memory leak)
Power Profile Automation:
- Energy Saver power saver and battery life extender
- Run at High Performance all the time, but drop back to Balanced when you go idle
- Run at Balanced all the time, but drop back to Power Saver when you go idle to save battery power
- Application Power Profiles - Switch power profiles each time given process(es) are running. Configure 'High Performance' like you want it, then set your favorite game or multimedia application to enter High Performance when it is run.
- Prevent Sleep option (list) sets processes that should prevent the PC and/or display from sleeping when they are running - or just use the GUI to temporarily keep your PC awake
Gaming / Multimedia:
- Gaming and Multimedia Mode to auto-optimize for game processes, when they are running
Advanced:
- Stand-alone core engine that can run as a system service
- Unique System Responsiveness metric with over a decade of real-world use and testing
- Multi-user ready
- Minimal resource use and totally optional GUI that goes into a sleep-mode when minimized to the tray
- Logging of all actions taken, or all started processes
- Granular settings to disable features you do not want
- Optional password protection on configuration
- Process Lasso makes no system setting modifications, does not inject itself into other processes, or make many changes at all
System Requirements:
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, 7, 8, and 2012