Process Lasso 5.1.0.52 Portable

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! In addition, Process Lasso offers capabilities such as default process priorities and affinities, termination of disallowed processes, instance count limits, a system responsiveness graph, logging of processes, keep select processes running (auto-restart), and much more! 

Best of all, Process Lasso's core process management engine is isolated from the GUI. This means it can do its job consuming almost no system resources, and without ever making a peep. You will porbably not even notice it is running, but you will surely notice when uninstalling it. 

Features: 

ProBalance dynamic priority optimization 

Works great for desktops, laptops, and netbooks 

Persistent (sticky) priorities and CPU affinities 

Instance count limits 

Disallowed processes 

Keep processes running (auto-restart) 

Unique system responsiveness graph 

Prevent PC sleep for designated processes 

Differentiate between svchost.exe instances 

Extremely low resource use 

Stand-alone process management engine (uses as little as 1MB of RAM) 

Event logging 

Limitations: Free for home and academic users. Commercial users need to register the program after 14 days of evaluation.