“Improve system responsiveness and stability in high load situations”

One of most common reasons for your PC slowing down is processes that are hogging your system and taking all your CPU.

Process Lasso aims to solve this problem by reducing the priority of those processes that are not important and returned to a responsive level. It also works with multiple processes that are causing a problem so it can deal with more than one program at once. If you think that the program is prioritising the wrong processes, then you can define default processes that you want to be controlled or kept an eye on. Process Lasso also displays graphs and other graphical represeantations to show you which processes are requiring the most CPU usage. You can blacklist those processes that are showing rather high graph readings or that are clearly taking up more CPU usage than they deserve. Although the program requires no experience, it does offer advanced settings and twesking options to make sure that it only blocks those processes that are specified or targeted by yourself. Fortunately, the program itself is very low on resources so it will not add to your CPU hogging problems.

A very useful process monitor than will ensure your CPU only dedicates itself to those programs that really need it.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Process Lasso:

Fix.GUI: Fixed 'Save' button in default CPU affinities dialog having no effect. Right-clicking processes to add default affinities worked fine though, users of v2.90 should use that mechanism instead, or upgrade to this beta.
Fix.Core: Removed hard limits on the size of lists (such as default priorities) in the configuration INI file.
Fix.Core: Now restores priority of a restrained background process when it becomes foreground, if foreground processes are excluded from restraint. The log entry and balloon text will differ from standard restores (if you've set PL to log restorations).
Fix.Core: Fixed possible problem with disallowed processed based on pathname (optional feature).
Fix.GUI: Fixed errant balloon text on process restraint (it said process priority was restored). This was a localization mishap, strings got confused in a copy/paste operation.
Fix.GUI: Fixed 'Open folder' option, which quit working in v2.90, or possibly before.
Addition.GUI: Added 'forced mode' setting within default priorities dialog, for convienence. It is still in the options menu too.
Addition.GUI: Added 'do not start at login' to 'Options / General settings / Process Lasso startup'.
Change.Core/GUI: Reduced RAM usage even further. The more processes you have running, the more pronounced the RAM savings will be.
Change.Core/GUI: Optimized stack use to reduce RAM consumption.
Change.Core: Added more sanity checking to the configuration file, which will prevent crashes in some cases where the user made certain syntax errors in the default priorities or affinities.
Change.Core: Default process priority settings in the configuration file can now be in your native language, or in English. They must be exact in their name though.
Change.Core: Some error messages were moved to localizable resources.
Change.GUI: Adjusted 'Options / General settings / Process Lasso startup' menu structure (removed a submenu).
Change.GUI: Updated Russian translation.
Change.GUI: Updated Polish translation.
Change.GUI: Moved start types 'All users' and 'Current user' to localizable resources.
Change.GUI: Reworked image list code to avoid problems at low color depths, or other issues.
Change.All: All Process Lasso executables are trimmed (PETrim) now.
Change.Core/GUI/InstallHelper: Reworked and consolidated localization handling.
Change.LocalizationPack: Renamed graph legend bitmap from bmp00001.bmp to graph_legend.bmp.
Change.Installer: Updated to NSIS v2.37.
Change.Installer: Switched to MUI2.
Change.Installer: Other changes, and added Polish language (note: selection may not be working as of beta 2).
Change.Installer: Localization files (for translators) installed by default for now, may switch back before final. This is to reduce confusion about where these files are.
Change.Installer(x64): File system redirection is now disabled, as it should be so PL isn't treated like a 32-bit app and installed in the WoW directories. Other than the default install path being wrong, it had no other effect.

OS requirements for Process Lasso:

OS: Win2000/NT/XP/Vista

Pros

Monitors processes for heavy usage
Easy to install and use

Cons

Can slow down PC while reassigning process priorities

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From the publisher of Process Lasso

Process Lasso is a unique new technology intended to automatically restrain running processes that are consuming too many CPU cycles. Often times, processes that are 'out-of-control' can bring an NT system to a near halt.

Once one or more processes have become CPU resource hogs, termination of the offending process(es) is very difficult since it is nearly impossible to even open the task manager.