A bit off-topic. But hopefully useful.
If you use Windows for any real work, this program which seems to add a
desperately needed facility to alter the dispatching priority dynamically.
Of course, IBM Mainframes had a program similar to this back in the
'60s. It was part of HASP, and was called Dynamic Dispatching Priority.
It made a HUGE difference to the way the computers worked then. It made
the work really flow through the computer much, much faster.
I was going to write a program like this for Windows myself - however, I
am delighted that someone else finally has.
Some people say "it is a keeper". If it changes the way your Windows
computer works to anything like mainframes, it shouldn't just be a
keeper. It needs to be put in Windows and Linux permanently!
If you are quick, you can download it and use it for free:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
Or here from the publisher's website:
http://www.bitsum.com/
Clem Clarke
From the site:
Giveaway of the Day - Process Lasso v5
_______________________________
Process Lasso is NOT yet another task manager; it is a process
optimization and automation utility. One of Process Lasso's most popular
features is a unique technology called ProBalance (Process Balance)
<http://www.bitsum.com/docs/pl/how_does_lasso_work.htm> that will
improve your PC's responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design,
allows programs to monopolize your CPU without sufficient restraint --
leading to hangs and micro-lags. ProBalance intelligently adjusts the
priorities of running programs on-demand so that badly behaved processes
won't negatively impact the responsiveness of your PC. It does this not
by raising process priorities, but instead by temporarily lowering the
priorities of background processes that may be interfering with
foreground responsiveness.
In addition to ProBalance, there are countless features allowing the
user to take full automated control of the processes on their PC. You
can have a wide range operations performed, or settings applied, each
time a process is run. You can choose at what priority processes should
run, and which CPUs should be assigned to them. You can also disallow
certain processes from running, log all processes run, automatically
restart processes when they terminate or reach a resource consumption
threshold, limit the number of instances, and much more. You can even
indicate processes that should induce entrance into the High Performance
power scheme and/or prevent the PC from sleeping. A gaming mode allows
for easy process priority optimization for avid gamers.
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.
Version 5 adds many features, including I/O priorities (default and
current), Default Power Schemes, HyperThreaded Core Avoidance, Automated
Updates, and much more.
Visit the product page for more info, free downloads, and purchasing
<http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php>
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