Process Lasso is a unique new technology that will, amongst other things, improve your PC's responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without restraint -- leading to freezes and hangs. Process Lasso's ProBalance technology intelligently adjusts the priority of running programs so that badly behaved programs won't interfere with your ability to use the computer! In addition, Process Lasso offers capabilities such as default process priorities and affinities, termination of disallowed processes, instance count limits, a system responsiveness graph, logging of processes, and much more! Once you install Process Lasso, it'll just start working. More advanced users can tweak the configuration, but you needn't touch anything to have it instantly improve your system responsiveness and prevent stalls in high load situations.
Features:
• ProBalance dynamic priority and affinity optimization
• Default process priorities
• Default process CPU affinities
• Foreground boosting
• Limit number of program instances
• Disallow programs from running
• Process logging
• System responsiveness graph
• Stand-alone core engine
• Available in x86-32 and x86-64 builds
• Much more...

Graphical Interface Features:
• Easily set rules for default process priorities, affinities, and more
• Optionally show balloon tips to notify you when actions are taken
• Unique system responsiveness calculation and graph display
• Easy to use right-click menu system allows for modification of process rules (default priority, default affinity, startup at login, and more)
• When not visible, resource use is minimized through a sleep-like mode
• The GUI is not required for process management, it can be completely closed
• Much more...

What's new?
* Addition.GUI: Sort by column now supported in new 'Active Processes' tab, as was already the case in the 'All Processes' tab
* Addition.GUI: Last sorted column of new 'Active Processes' tab is remembered
* Change.GUI: Repositioned some of the newer menu items for easier location
* Change.GUI: Moved graph visibility setting to the registry, so a config reload and process recheck event won't be triggered every time the graph visibility is toggled by the user
* Change.Core: No longer restore the original priority of a process whose priority was externally adjusted while it was in a changed state due to a ProBalance event (i.e. if user changes the priority after ProBalance makes a temporary adjustment)
* Change.Core: No longer restore the original CPU affinity of a process whose CPU affinity was externally adjusted while it was in a changed state due to a ProBalance event (i.e. if user changes the CPU affinity after ProBalance makes a temporary adjustment)
* Addition.Installer: Included a CHM copy of the docs for easy readability and offline access (increased installer size though)
* Post-release minor updates:
- [.2]Fix.GUI: Fixed pressing F1 was opening the help documentation twice
- [.2]Fix.GUI: Fixes to the behavior of 'Manage Processes of All Users' menu item toggle
- [.2]Fix.GUI: Fixed issue where the 'close governor too' message could be shown while Process Lasso is restarting due to a configuration change
- [.2]Fix.GUI: Toggling graph visibility was still inducing config file save and reload due to a code artifact
- [.2]Fix.GUI: Fixed power scheme management submenus weren't being deleted in XP/2K (first appeared in v3.82 due to menu re-arrangement)
- [.2]Change.GUI: After user manually resets language, only show languages whose backing files are installed

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