Process Lasso v9.0: Real-Time PC Optimization & Automation

[tarekma7]

With daily use of your computer, your system is getting slow and sometimes unresponsive or freeze. Most of the users will need to increases system responsiveness and helps to prevents system stalls. We have a very good and professional solution for you. Process Lasso is an automated Windows process management and optimization utility. It will manage the programs running on your computer using ProBalance technology. This built-in technology uses a specific proprietary algorithm which dynamically adjusts the priorities of running programs on your system. Some processes are given higher priority access to the CPU than others which avoid system stalls whatever the processes you are running. 


Using the program, you can tweak how programs are run. Process Lasso also offers a number of unique and helpful capabilities such as default priority classes, default CPU affinities, disallowed processes, keep running processes, per-process Power Profiles, a process watchdog, and process instance count limits. These features give you the ability to control how programs utilize your computer’s resources based on automatic settings. With the use of process lasso, you will decide exactly how you want your processes to run.

Home Page:

https://bitsum.com/

Current version:   v9.0.0.348

Release Date:  05/20/17

Download:

32 bit: https://bitsum.com/files/processlassosetup32.exe

64 bit: https://bitsum.com/files/processlassosetup64.exe

System Requirements:

The program supports all windows versions from Windows XP to Windows 10, both 32 and 64-bit versions are supported. 1-3 Mb free RAM

Installation and free trial:

After simple installation, you will enjoy 30 days fully functional trial, this gives you enough time to test all the program features before purchase.














User Interface:

The user interface is very friendly and easy to use. It includes CPU utilization and system responsiveness graph in the upper part below the menu bar, a list of running processes, and a list of recent actions (log). The program configuration is made easy to tweak through the menu system. Right-click on any process will let you use many available options. Also, individual CPU process history can be seen in the graph. On the right side of the graph, you will find RAM Load graph which gives you a quick read on the RAM load.









Menu bar: includes the following buttons:

Main



File



Options



View



Updates



Help:



Features:

Keep Windows PCs responsive during high CPU loads with ProBalance
Optimize and automate process CPU affinities
Optimize and automate process CPU priority classes
Optimize and automate process I/O priority classes
Optimize and automate other process settings
Limit hyper-threaded core use
Limit number of instances of a process (even per-user)
Disallow processes from running
Log and audit process activity
Monitor PC Responsiveness with proprietary algorithm
Auto-restart processes
Broad CPU compatibility (SMP, NUMA)
Separate Graphical User Interface goes into sleep mode when minimized, or can be closed completely
Light-weight native C++ code with negligible resource use
Efficient stand-alone core engine that can run as a service
Does NOT inject hooks anywhere outside itself or change persistent system settings
INI configuration for easy on-demand changes
Select multiple processes to act on at once
Unattended install and headless operation
Quick Start Guide for Audiophile Servers
Multilanguage support to suite users’ needs. You can select the language you like during installation or using language options after installation
Compatible with all Windows Server variants!
 
New Features in version 9:

Full config profile and process filter support!

This version is a big boost in performance and features. The new 'Frequency of Action' metric will help you determine how often ProBalance acts on processes. The new Governor Response Slider will make for easy adjustment to the aggressiveness of the governor. The Process Filter will let you pause and examine a process at any time. The Configuration Profiles will let you easily swap between desired configuration states

Better UI

The graph legend is now dynamically painted. The GUI also had some painting artifacts when being resized, but this build is silky smooth!

Language Selection

The program uses Windows language preference if no language is selected. If you wish to over-ride this, simply run the installer and make your choice.

Frequency of ProBalance Action and Insights Improvements

The new Frequency of Action is useful for you. It will inform you just how much it has to be restrained, as opposed to a simple count. This takes into account the time the process runs. The governor slider is also new, allowing for easy adjustment of governor refresh rate, which improves all Process Lasso actions.

LogViewer More Usable

LogViewer was extremely limited and displaying only a small number of log entries. It is adjusted and showing the right number. In addition, it is user adjustable, and dynamically loading older events for performance.
 
Now let’s discuss how process lasso is a must need program that will help you:
 
The program has an optimal Configuration with native 64-bit code for maximum performance! it does NOT use the .NET Common Language Runtime and that the code is compiled to machine code, instead of to Microsoft Intermediate Language. The offers you the advantages of fast performance and low memory use.

ProBalance ‘fixes’ system responsiveness if it is a background process out of control, or as soon as you click away from the foreground process. You have to click away only because of the default ‘foreground exclusion’. This will prevent ProBalance from acting on something important to you. This feature is especially useful to gamers, multimedia editors, multitasking users and those with high CPU loads. It will save you from freeze, microlags, hard resets.





Power Plans: the program lets you select from 5 power plans based on your needs and system use; bitsum highest performance, balanced (default), high performance, power saver and eco. It can be accessed easily from the main menu or right click of taskbar icon



The taskbar icon lets you have quick information with just simple hoover of your mouse. You will get the program version, RAM use, CPU, response and power plan

With Process Lasso you can see the individual CPU history of process you select in the process list. It will be drawn as a smaller white line on the graph. You can also select which columns you want visible by right-clicking on the 'All processes' tab, right-clicking on the list header, or using the view menu and select choose columns to show. In addition, you can resize the columns according to your wish

The Active Processes tab shows only processes that are actively utilizing the system CPU. It displays basic information about them, and a horizontal bar graph to visually depict their active CPU utilization. You can now either right clicking or double click on any of the running processes to show the context menu or more extended information. Also, simple hoover using your mouse over any of the running processes will let you get all information you want in a pop up window.







Process priority:




Double clicking a process in the active processes view: This will help you to go to that process in the 'All processes' tab, where extended information is available.

Single process context menu: Right-clicking on a process in the 'Active Processes' tab shows the same context menu as in the 'All processes' tab. You can perform any available operation on the process.



Multiple process context menu: Just as in the 'All processes' tab, you can select multiple processes and right-click on them to perform an operation on all of them

The program supports many keyboard shortcuts to help doing some orders; for example, Del button terminate running process

You can limit the number of instances of a process allowed to be running at the same time. You can ensure certain processes are kept running using keep process running dialogue which is located under options menu. Moreover, the program will help you to designate certain processes as games. In this condition, it will induce the High Performance Power Profile and make certain adjustments to ProBalance in an effort to ensure all available CPU cycles go to the game.

The built-in anti sleep features help you to prevent your PC and display from entering a sleep or hibernate state by adding them to the 'anti-sleep' list. In addition, the program lets you set certain processes to cause the system to enter the chosen Power Profile each time they are run. These are available under options menu





IdleSaver: 

This built-in option lets you enjoy top PC performance without sacrificing power savings. The program lets users choose an aggressive/performance power plan while being active on the PC, then a more conservative one when you go Idle



Automation:

This is one of the useful built-in features in process lasso. It will let you control your PC through either your own manual rules, or the program automated algorithms. You can set process priorities, process CPU affinities, and more. In addition; you will have those settings persist for as preferred. The program automated capabilities include ProBalance, power plan, power settings, keep your PC awake, limit instances, disallow processes, advanced watchdog rules and much more

Gaming Mode 2.0:

This is now renamed as “Highest Performance Mode” in the new version 9. This mode invokes the power plan: ‘Bitsum Highest Performance’. This will help to keep your CPU ready to execute code at all times. Otherwise, you would cope with that extra bit of latency seen while unparking cores, or ramping up the CPU frequency, which degrades performance of bursting CPU loads. 
With ParkControl, hidden CPU settings that control core parking are revealed. Process Lasso offers you a power plan pre-configured for maximal performance.

Real-Time Apps:

The program ensures optimal performance at all times for real-time applications!

SmartTrim RAM Management:

The program acts in a selective way using an intelligent RAM management algorithm to optimize your computer RAM. It doesn’t force everything out of memory all at once. It politely asks memory hogging background processes to release their working sets. It has many other criteria built-in, such as never trimming the application you’re actively engaged with.



Process Watchdog:

The process watchdog allows for you to take an action on a process when it exceeds a certain amount of CPU or Memory. You can specify actions of restart, terminate, or change affinity. You can choose commit size of working set size if using a memory trigger. With both memory and CPU triggers, you can set a time the process must exceed this threshold before action is taken.





Keep PC awake: 

This option is available under main menu and lets you specify the time you want your PC to be awake



Tools: 

There are built-in tools under options menu that help you to tweak windows NT scheduler parameters, tweak the multimedia scheduler parameters, open task manager, open windows power options, configure core parking and launch CPUeater demo application



Program settings:

The program settings are located under options menu. It includes general settings, log settings, probalance settings, performance mode settings and smart trim settings











Pros:

Keep Windows PCs responsive during high CPU loads with ProBalance
Ensures optimal performance at all times for real-time applications
Automation
Gaming mode
Optimize and automate process CPU priority classes
Multilingual support
Different power plans support
And many more

Cons:

The program needs some user experience

Conclusion:

Process Lasso offers state of the art real-time PC optimization and automation. This is done using intelligent real-time algorithms and user-created rules. Process Lasso’s ProBalance algorithm dramatically improves system responsiveness in high CPU load situations.
 

[Mike]

Nice well done review Tarek.

[clyde]

Excellent review as always

[baziroll]

very deep review thank you very much

[scot]

Thanks for the review.

[TXi]

process lasso vs tamer
i try w/ both as good tool w/ balance & change manual priority w/ IO
before i trying lasso, i love'd tamer w/ design low ram & tiny size.
but many feature on lasso, 2017 - present i still using lasso