Process Lasso 3.70

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 21 2009 @ 21:34 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

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!

Changelog:

Addition.Core: Now supports rules on specific service groups hosted by svchost.exe instances
Addition.Core: Added new feature to prevent PC sleep when designated processes are running
Addition.Core: Added new feature to put the PC into the High Performance power scheme when designated processes are running
Addition.Core: Add copyright log message
Addition.GUI: Shows distinctive group names for services hosted by svchost.exe instances
Addition.GUI: Added private working set metric (hidden by default)
Addition.GUI: Added new feature to prevent PC sleep when selected processes are running
Addition.GUI: Added informative tooltips to processes list (hover over process name)
Addition.GUI: Auto-select and make visible process that corresponds to the user selected log entry
Addition.GUI: Added menu option to switch the active system power scheme, for convenience. Available in Vista+ only.
Addition.GUI: Added forced mode toggle to system tray
Addition.GUI: Added 'Show graph legend' to view menu (you can still click on the legend to toggle its visibility)
Addition.InstallHelper: Added helpful tooltips to the configuration dialogs
Addition.InstallHelper: Tweaks to the dialogs
Addition.Installer: The 32-bit installer can now automatically download and run the 64-bit installer when necessary
Fix.Core: Fixed issue where restraining via only a CPU affinity change (no priority adjustment) wouldn't always work
Fix.GUI: Fixed delay when switching between lower view tabs
Fix.GUI: Fixed log view could have missing entries after it exceeded 500 list items and a log resize hadn't occurred at any point (rare)
Change.Licensing: Unspecified changes for future reseller product activations
Change.Updater: Changed product name shown from 'ProcessLasso' to 'Process Lasso'
Change.GUI: Advanced tools that require permission elevation can now be launched directly from the unelevated GUI
Change.GUI: Reduced total stack use
Change.GUI: Made custom message boxes more narrow
Change.GUI: A few misc. code tweaks and rewrites
Change.GUI: Some misc. UI performance enhancements
Change.GUI: Rewrote forced mode menu item to something more clear
Change.Core: Re-wrote automatic gaming mode implementation so that it engages or disengages automatically upon user configuration change
Change.Core: Switched to NT native session ID resolution
Change.Core: Disallow multiple log events in the same millisecond (by incrementing time), for correct sorting
Change.Core: When an actively restrained process is marked to be excluded from ProBalance, any adjustments made to that process are immediately reverted
Change.All: Converted entire project to UNICODE (previously only portions were UNICODE)
Change.All: Removed COM interface to process management engine (more optimal, less memory use, can run without install, and no interference from registry cleaners)
Change.All: All additions and changes from minor version updates to v3.64
Change.InstallHelper: Renamed auto-start registry value
Change.Localization: Updated Russian, PTBR, Serbian, Chinese (simplified), and French translations
Removal.Installer: Remove deprecated processcontrol.dll and common.dll