14 DAY TRIAL // Bill2's Process Manager
One of the most atypical process managers on the market, Bill2's Process Manager combines the functionality of the habitual software of this kind with scheduling and rule creation. This freebie is bent on a different functional aspect than the regular process managers out there. As it does not list handles and threads of the running processes right in front of your eyes, Bill2's brings up different functions designed to make your work easier, according to the processes that start on the system.
The application puts at your disposal statistics about the current system state, such as performance graphs for CPU and RAM, plus details on each running process (CPU usage, priority, CPU affinity, complete path to its location, RAM and virtual memory usage). But this covers the regular functionality of this process manager, because the star feature is represented by group and rule management.
Here you can customize process resource allocation according to the various states of the window defined by the respective process. Thusly, you have the possibility to automatically lower the CPU priority and affinity if the window is in normal mode or minimized. More than this, Bill2's Process Manager features a set of special actions to be taken upon process launch in case of inactivity or overactivity as well as when it ends.
The choices in these cases comprise terminating the process, launching or ending other programs, starting a specific action, restarting the process. If you need an alert the application lets you enable the display of a balloon tooltip informing of the action taken.
Googling processes, in case they are unknown to you, as well as viewing information details on per process performance graph (CPU), RAM usage, its modules and threads (access Properties panel) are also available options.
Bill2's Process Manager, although featuring functionality uncommon to software of its feather, proves to be a good ally when it comes to process management. Its interface supplies all the general information at a glance and as a whole it is surprisingly comprehensive.
It will help you manage your processes, create performance rules, set up CPU affinity as well as automatically impose actions the moment the process state changes.
Process Explorer, Process Lasso, Extended Task Manager, Starter
