ProcessTamer's process control tool: optimizes your system resource usage

UseProcessTamerOfProcessControl tools, process management, and optimize your system resource usage. The specific content is as follows.

When we use computers, system resources are too large and insufficient memory is a common problem. Let's take a look at the solution.

Software name ProcessTamer software version v2.05.02 Software size 2, 279KB software classification file management software language Simplified Chinese application platform Windows95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003 software author DonationCoder.com High Speed

John's annoyance: Although I used the latest codecomro26300 processor and the memory capacity reached 1 GB, I still feel that the memory is not enough, especially when running multiple programs, the available resources in the system are often too limited...

Xiao Li's distress: The office host still uses the saiyang processor, and the memory is only 256 MB. Windows XP is installed in the system. There are many windows open when browsing the webpage, the system seems to be dead, the window cannot be switched, the menu appears slowly, and the mouse stops. In severe cases, the system may even crash...

In fact, the reason for the above situation is that a few "overlord" processes occupy too high system resources, in this way, the system resources allocated to other processes are obviously insufficient, which leads to the polarization of "The stronger the strong, the weaker the weak", unless you manually release the process from the task manager, but it is obviously very troublesome. Here, I recommend a process control tool named ProcessTamer, which can automatically schedule CPU usage in the background to achieve process optimization management.

Compared with other process management software, ProcessTamer has three major advantages:

One of the advantages: Silly operations

By default, ProcessTamer runs automatically after the installation is complete and the process management function is enabled automatically. A balance icon is displayed in the system tray ,. The program monitors the CPU usage of the application in the background in real time, automatically adjusts the execution priority of the program based on the usage, and allocates appropriate resources to other running applications, after the execution of other programs ends or no longer occupies CPU resources, it will automatically reset the CPU usage.

From this perspective, ProcessTamer provides a completely silly process management mechanism. After installation, you can perform automatic process control without any setup. Double-click the icon or right-click and select "Configure" to open the window shown in Figure 1. The content in the "Processes" tab looks similar to the Windows Task Manager, the running process information is displayed, including the following:

Figure 1

CPUInst.: Current CPU usage

CPUAvg.: Average CPU usage

ApplicationName: Application name

Priority: Priority

ExplicitRule: Adjust rules

It should be noted that ProcessTamer will automatically Hide processes whose CPU usage is less than 1%. If you want to display these processes, you only need to cancel the "Hide <1% NormalCPU" check box.

Advantage 2: flexible and diverse process adjustment

In general, we do not need to manually adjust each process. ProcessTamer automatically monitors every running process in the background. If a process exceeds the default value, the priority of the program will be automatically reduced until the CPU usage is restored to an acceptable level. If you want to know how ProcessTamer regulates each process, you can switch to the "Configuration" tab, select all the related options in the "ShowSystemTrayBalloonMessages" section, and then we can view the relevant adjustment information in the system tray (see figure 2 ).

Figure 2

However, you can manually adjust the process as needed:

① Temporary adjustment

Temporary adjustments include "Priority" and "ExplicitRule". The former is about Priority adjustment. In the drop-down menu, you can manually adjust the Priority of the corresponding process, including Low) belowNormal (lower than Normal), Normal (Normal), AboveNormal (higher than Normal), High (High), Realtime (real-time) and other different levels; the latter is about the choice of regulatory rules, you can manually specify the corresponding rules in the drop-down menu, including Ignore (Ignore), ForceLow (force in the low state), ForceHith (force in the High State), and ForceNormal (force in the normal state), ForceBelowNormal (force lower than normal), ForceAboveNormal (Force higher than normal), ForceRealtime (Force real-time adjustment), ForceKill (Force stop process) and other rules.

② Permanent adjustment

The adjustment method mentioned above is only valid in the current status and will expire after the system is restarted. If you need to make permanent adjustments to an application to ensure that these programs give priority to the smooth running of CPU resources, you can switch to the "Configuration" tab, click the Browse button to find the corresponding application execution file, as shown in 3. Here you can set rules based on your needs. It is particularly worth mentioning the following section "ForegroundProcessSpecialHandling, for example, the current process can be automatically in a high-priority State, or the current process can be detached from ProcessTamer monitoring.

Figure 3

After setting, do not forget the three check boxes StartwithWindows, LogFile, and RunHighPriority on the top. In particular, after "RunHighPriority" is selected, ProcessTamer can run with a high priority.

Advantage 3: precise system adjustment

On the "Configuration" tab, there is also a very practical adjustment part: TameApplicationsBasedonCPUUsage. By default, this function has been automatically enabled. Here you can set the lowest and highest critical points of CPU usage, however, the CPU usage is not always fixed during the running of the program. For example, when loading the program, the CPU usage is relatively high and will gradually stabilize during the running process, therefore, you can set a control point in the slider on the right side of "CPUUsageMeasurementSmoothingOverTime" to further improve the efficiency of ProcessTamer control.

In some cases, you may not want ProcessTamer to automatically adjust the priority of the program. For example, if the process is randomly downgraded during the burning operation, the burning may fail, one solution is to temporarily disable ProcessTamer. You only need to right-click the balance icon in the system tray area and remove "Enableed" from the shortcut menu; another better method is to modify the ProcessTamer configuration file and use NotePad to open ProcessTamer in the installation directory. in the INI file, find the "[Rules]" section and add a line in the following format. Because ProcessTamer will distinguish the name of the application based on case sensitivity, therefore, ensure that the entered text exactly corresponds to the program name:

Application name, regulatory rules

Summary:

It must be pointed out that, although Process Tamer cannot significantly improve the CPU performance like HT or dual-core processor, Process switching can be relatively smooth during system use, it is worth a try. We hope that the ProcessTamer process control tool introduced in this article will be helpful to you in optimizing your system resource usage. more knowledge about the operating system remains to be explored and learned.