Process Lasso improves system performance, responsivenss, and stability in high load situations. It watches for processes consuming too much of the CPU and automatically restrains them to improve system responsiveness. It can also automatically terminate undesired processes, apply default priorities to an application each time it is run, or log all processes launched. It is not a task manager replacement, but does have task manager like capabilties only as a compliment to its core functions.
What's New in version 2.90:
Addition.Core: Support for HKLM INI config file and log folder over-rides, so that all instances of Process Lasso and Process Governor will use the same configuration file, no matter what user context they run in.
Change.Core: The ProcessGovernor engine now uses localized resources. Log entries and the like can now be properly localized.
Fix.Core; Improved log synchronization. This fixes some lost log messages.
Fix.Core: Fixed process and thread priority of ProcessGovernor.exe in Windows 2000 (only), which was insufficient to tame out-of-control processes in many cases. In Windows 2000, the priotity class of the governor was set lower than in other flavors of Windows, for reasons now no longer relevant.
Fix.TestLasso: Fixed a couple minor things and changed inaccurate text about foreground exclusions from restraint.
Addition.GUI: Added menu option 'General program settings/Reset options/Reset language' to change the Process Lasso language pick.
Addition.GUI: Added menu option 'General program settings/Reset options/Reset saved message box options' to delete the 'do not show again' saved settings for message boxes.
Addition.GUI: Added a one time balloon tip informing about the license of the free build.
Change.GUI: Moved a bunch more strings to the localizable resources.
Fix.GUI: Fixed a few message boxes whose caption was also set as the text.
Fix.GUI: Log not getting cleared (if set to) when Process Lasso closed due to session ending.
Fix.TweakScheduler: The x64 build was accidentally getting included in the 32-bit distribution, causing no action to seem to happen when run from the GUI. The build system errata that caused this is now corrected.
Addition.InstallHelper: Log folder and configuration file global over-rides can be set so that all instances use the same configuration and log.
Change.InstallHelper: During reinstall/upgrade, it now properly waits until processes terminate instead of doing a dumb sleep. There is of course a limit to how long it will wait.
Change.Installer: Now uses nsis::dl plug-in again to download gdiplus.dll on Windows 2000 machines.
Change.Installer: Add InstallHelper to start menu (advanced sub-menu).
