After praising GAOD and Bitsum (mfr. of Process Lasso Pro), I find that for the first time in many years of using GATD, I am having trouble installing. Someone else had the same problem, getting a message saying the installer integrity check has failed. I downloaded the zip file three times hoping for a clean installer, but no luck. It won't work to download the program from Bitsum, at least not to get PRO version free via GOTD. But with half off it's $30 for lifetime upgrades and updates, with licenses for every computer you own, I just may download it directly.

GOTD, get this fixed please! Windows 10 Home, 64 bit on a Lenovo Yoga 700.

Well, you could try to say something more than useful program, one of the best, and I forgot about it.

Mike OD, Task Manager does a reasonable job of letting you see what's using up your resources. If your system is creaking under the strain, simply shut down the unnecessary background tasks and tweak your startup programs .... Usually does the trick.

Lenny,

I am an average computer user, would you mind to name some examples of unnecessary background tasks?
Thank you for your kind response.

Regards,

consuella

Matt,
I second what Matt has to say. It has so much functionality that one could spend hours in discovery. I use it vanilla out of the box and get lots from it. 2 thumbs up!!

And I second what warpwiz has to say, thereby I suppose "thirding" what Matt says. I've been using Process Lasso (PL) for a number of years, and with a paid licence use it on multiple PCs.

I find PL to be very effective since at times I bombard my systems with lots of concurrent jobs, and as a "power user" it's very easy to configure PL to give some of those jobs higher or lower priorities (CPU cores used, processor affinity, etc).

PL generally helps even if don't tweak it and you just let it do its own thing, yet still I can imagine that for some other people's system workloads PL won't make much difference.

Keith, It won't be Process Lasso that is making your Windows crawl and it won't slow your computer down. You don't seem to know just how this program works and to blame Process Lasso just shows how little you know about Windows

Alexander Gieg, You are correct, it worked great on XP and 7, however there is no longer noticeable increase in performance on win 10 with 3GHZ processor. If you have 16GB DRAM installed, Lasso will not do any better than win 10 does, I've done the tests few months ago.

Kerry, I can believe there are non noticeable improvements in very powerful computers such as the one you describe. For less powerful ones however (my case) it still helps.

Here in Brazil computers are still very expensive. My home one is a six years old Core 2 Duo, and it was the second cheapest computer at the store even back then. In the meantime I managed to double its RAM to 8 GB and to add a bigger HDD, but that was it. So, for me and for those in a similar situation, Process Lasso is still useful. :-)

In 5 to 10 years, when my computer breaks down for good, I might not need it anymore. Until then however, I'm happy keeping it installed! :-D

"... however there is no longer noticeable increase in performance on win 10 with 3GHZ processor. If you have 16GB DRAM installed, Lasso will not do any better than win 10 does"
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" For less powerful ones however (my case) it still helps."

If you spend much time watching 10's Task Mgr., you'll see 10 tends to have more processes going on in the background. In my experience it can make a very low powered CPU [e.g. an Atom] seem more powerful & make the system more responsive, *until* you do something really CPU intensive where it's true lack of power is revealed. OTOH running 10 on something like a i7 k, that habit can slow things down, as the system winds up waiting for several processes to finish doing their thing, so it can get down to applying it's full muscle to heavier workloads.

There's also a potential problem moving lots of data. Regardless the speed of your drive(s), & even with SSDs, a device can only move a certain amount of data at a more limited speed to & from the drive(s). Many processes can interrupt that data flow.

Process Lasso can help in both situations [and more], but the amount of help it provides varies -- it's more noticeable in some situations, depending on the task(s) & hardware, than in others. Running Process Lasso while I'm typing this using this PC does not provide a benefit that I can easily see. If I were editing a bunch of large RAW image files, or in a game where tweaking for every fps matters, that would be a different story. So I start & run Process Lasso when/where it can make a bigger difference, don't bother with it when it doesn't.

Kerry, You need to learn the options and how to use them after I tweaked the six cores in mine it act likes it can read my mind and start the programs I was about to click it's gotten so fast. I now feel my computer can keep up with my graphics card instead of bottle necking it. I can see the increase but I am using win 7 pro 64 bit. Don't know about Win 10, Good Luck and give it a try tweaking you can just reset when it doesn't do what you want it to do.

Dave K,

The dev behind Process Lasso is great, and generous... usually your GOTD license is good for that version number, regardless how many sub-versions [or perhaps builds is a better word] there are.

That said, whenever it's on GOTD you can try updating Process Lasso in-program, & if it works you're golden, if it doesn't grab the GOTD & you're still golden.

seagrape,

The revision history is here:
bitsum[.]com/changes/processlasso/#latest

Adam, if your CPU is running in the hundred percent all the time you have major problem. This should not be. CPU running hundred percent of the time is going to overheat. That is can lead to massive failure on your computer.

I would think that no third-party software is going to solve your problem you need to contact Dell.

kc4cop, Thank you. I'm sorry my bad, I didn't explain that correctly. What I meant was that Core Parking is turned off, therefore all of my Cores are available upon need without being throttled, not running 100% all of the time.

I decided to give Process Lasso a try, I like some of the additional features it has, I find them very useful. Such as the Anti Sleep Anti display sleep settings, that's really nice because I like to use a screen saver sometimes and using the antisleep/display settings for specific apps I can watch a movie or video using my browser that I setup to use with it without my screen saver or PC Sleep interrupting while the browser is running, along with other programs I setup to use with it like my Media Player.

I like the always higher priority settings for specific programs, I find that it is helpful with some softwares that I use and gives them a quicker response.

Adam,

"Core Parking is turned off, therefore all of my Cores are available upon need without being throttled, not running 100% all of the time."

You don't mention any CPU info -- for Intel it's Turbo Boost I believe, & it reduces the clock speed on a per core basis when you don't need it. Many over clockers just increase the max boost speed, but many choose to just run a steady, max clock rate instead. If the cooling's adequate, running at top clock speed only hurts your electric bill. If you want, run the free, portable CPUID HWMonitor, once or always -- it can show you the watts used, along with the clock speed per core if you turn on the Turbo Boost feature in the bios.

This morning the top CPU utilization on this rig is 55%, the top power reading is 62.21W, the lowest reading is 5.6W, while the top temp is 50C, & the lowest 29C. So Turbo Boost has saved me $ both running the PC & the A/C.

That said, while I don't have a big problem with with any lag using Turbo Boost on this PC in the ways I use it, you might want to check out another app from Bitsum called Park Control, which deals just with that sort of thing.

"I decided to give Process Lasso a try, I like some of the additional features it has, I find them very useful. "

Cool

Process Lasso's ability to keep my computer awake for 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 hours or indefinitely is useful to me when doing lengthy downloads or backups. In addition, I value the ability occasionally to throttle one or more processes by lowering their priority. The program has kept itself up to date in the three years since I installed it.

kc4cop, Check your Windows update as I have read it has been causing what you describe while checking for updates

tommo39, this is non-expiring license for Process Lasso PRO , but ONLY FOR THIS PARTICULAR VERSION (8.9.8), perhaps some minor updates apply to it, but for sure when the new major version comes out, we will be not entitled to the free upgrade.
Having said that, I still recommend trying the software.

Rafal Stanilewicz, I installed this program many years ago as a GOTD giveaway and it continues to update regularly. Today i am on version 8.9.8 without doing a reinstallation.