Taming of the Process

A few hours ago, I got a note from “mouser,” the DonationCoder. He just posted a new piece of freeware called Process Tamer, which looks to be an essential tool for Windows users:

Process Tamer is a tiny (100k) and efficient utility for Microsoft Windows XP/2k/NT that runs in your system tray and constantly monitors the CPU usage of other processes. When it sees a process that is overloading your CPU, it reduces the priority of that process temporarily, until its CPU usage returns to a reasonable level.
There are many times when a process will hog your CPU, such as when converting audio/video files, or working with compressed archives. Because these processes completely consume the CPU, your system becomes sluggish to respond and using the computer for other tasks becomes impossible while these processes are running. Process Tamer solves this problem by identifying such these degenerate conditions and temporarily reducing the priority of the offending processes in order to allow your system to respond to other requests. Stop being a victim to an overloaded CPU - let Process Tamer keep your system responsive no matter what you're doing.

Processes always ride single-file to hide their numbers.

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