Windows process automation by Bitsum
Keep your PC responsive under heavy load, and make every process run your way with persistent rules for CPU affinities, priorities, power plans and more.
Key features
Algorithms that work with the default settings, and rules that apply automatically every time an app starts.
Helps maintain system responsiveness during high CPU loads.
Switch to the Bitsum Highest Performance power plan while demanding apps run.
See how responsive Windows is, measured continuously and shown in the graph.
Automate CPU affinities, priorities and other process settings.
Switch power plans automatically when specific apps are running.
Take action on a process when a threshold is reached.
The CPU Limiter, Instance Balancer, Group Extender and more.
Log process launches and other selected system activity.
Use a faster power plan while you use the PC and a power-saving one when it is idle.
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Everything it does
Pro lifetime license: $39.95 $23.97, a one-time payment.
Process Lasso is Windows process automation and optimization software. Think of it as an automated task manager. From tuning algorithms like ProBalance to user-created rules and persistent settings such as CPU affinities and priority classes, Process Lasso lets you decide how each process runs.
ProBalance helps maintain system responsiveness during high CPU loads by temporarily lowering the priority of background processes that are monopolizing the CPU. This helps keep one runaway process, or several, from making the system unresponsive, so you can keep working while the CPU is under heavy load. Try our CPUEater demo to see ProBalance at work.
Process Lasso also lets you automate how applications run. Options include persistent priority classes, persistent CPU affinities, disallowed processes, per-process power profiles, a process watchdog for advanced rules, process instance count limits, multiple instance balancing and more.
Process Lasso is also a CPU affinity manager. The CPU affinity specifies the set of CPU cores an application can run on. With Process Lasso, you can set it persistently so it applies every time the application starts, or change it dynamically once a threshold is met. The CPU affinity is commonly changed to limit CPU use or improve performance.
Many additional functions such as power plan automation, a system responsiveness metric and process activity logging are also available.
These features give you the ability to control how programs utilize your computer’s resources based on automatically applied settings. With Process Lasso, you can decide exactly how you want your processes to run.
For minimal resource use, all algorithms and process rules are enforced by a stand-alone background service called the Process Governor. The GUI is entirely optional.
Process Lasso’s headline technology is ProBalance, a smart tool which monitors running processes and intelligently adjusts the priority of resource hogs as they appear.
Can this really make a difference? We used the developer’s “CPUEater” demo to create a process with 48 active threads, and tried launching Chrome (with its core files cached). It took 30-40 seconds to appear with ProBalance disabled, under 1 second with it turned on.
That was a very extreme example, so we tried again with 16 threads (one per core), and Chrome loaded in 5 seconds; 8 threads and it loaded in around 2, still more than twice the ProBalance-enabled time.
We tried a few other CPU-stressing apps with similar results. If you’re running multiple applications at the same time, and something tries to hog your CPU, then Process Lasso’s priority tweaks generally mean your system stays very responsive.
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