Process Lasso v3.64 - free
Aug 18, 2009

This version improves CPU Throttling support, improves the user interface display under customized Windows themes, fixes a few minor bugs, and makes other general product enhancements.

Revisions in this version:

• Addition.GUI: Added '*' beside process priority classes to indicate whether Windows dynamic thread boosting is enabled for that process
• Addition.Installer: Added start menu shortcut for TweakScheduler and Vista Multimedia Scheduler Configurator, in Advanced sub-folder of ProcessLasso group
• Change.Core: Improvements to CPU Throttling (re: not ProBalance out-of-control process priority adjustment, the actual CPU throttling feature)
• Change.Core: Governor now accepts /ConfigFolder=xxx on the command line. Previously, regarding the configuration file, it only accepted /ConfigFile=xxx to indicate the full path and filename of the INI configuration file
• Change.Core: A command line provided argument now supercedes any global configuration and log path indicated by the registry
• Change.Core: Log entries milliseconds time expanded to 3 digits always
• Change.GUI: Some other minor string and cosmetic changes
• Change.GUI: Use the system theme window background and text color for process list view (others we were already)
• Change.GUI: Improved core engine inactive system tray icon
• Change.GUI: Improved main window appearance with customized Windows themes
• Fix.Core: Fix to governor command line handling of /ConfigFile
• Fix.GUI: Elevate permissions to launch TweakScheduler and VistaMMSC from GUI in UAC environments with PL running with normal permissions
• Fix.GUI: Re-launch governor after successful activation of time limited trial builds, since the governor would have terminated due to being expired
• Fix.GUI: Some adjustments to new external process command line support that first appeared in v3.62
• Fix.GUI: Fixed lower (log) listview header disappearing briefly in XP
• Fix.GUI: Fixed a little wasted space below log list view
• Fix.GUI: Fixed issue where when updating product from some old versions of Process Lasso, child window positioning problems could occur
• Fix.Installer: Fixed /language=x command line parameter for silent installs not always working
• Fix.Installer: Fixed Windows 7 application compatibility warning ('this program may not have installed correctly..')
• Change.Installer: Changed filename case of setup executable, for impreved readibility
• Change.Localization: Updated Serbian translation

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Process Lasso v3.64.1
[.1]Fix.Installer:
Fixed Windows 7 application compatibility warning ('this program may not have installed correctly..'

Process Lasso (x32) 3.70

Changes

- Addition.Core: Now supports rules on specific service groups hosted by svchost.exe instances

- Addition.Core: Added new feature to prevent PC sleep when designated processes are running

- Addition.Core: Added new feature to put the PC into the High Performance power scheme when designated processes are running

- Addition.Core: Add copyright log message

- Addition.GUI: Shows distinctive group names for services hosted by svchost.exe instances

- Addition.GUI: Added private working set metric (hidden by default)

- Addition.GUI: Added new feature to prevent PC sleep when selected processes are running

- Addition.GUI: Added informative tooltips to processes list (hover over process name)

- Addition.GUI: Auto-select and make visible process that corresponds to the user selected log entry

- Addition.GUI: Added menu option to switch the active system power scheme, for convenience. Available in Vista+ only

- Addition.GUI: Added forced mode toggle to system tray

- Addition.GUI: Added 'Show graph legend' to view menu (you can still click on the legend to toggle its visibility)

- Addition.InstallHelper: Added helpful tooltips to the configuration dialogs

- Addition.InstallHelper: Tweaks to the dialogs

- Addition.Installer: The 32-bit installer can now automatically download and run the 64-bit installer when necessary

- Fix.Core: Fixed issue where restraining via only a CPU affinity change (no priority adjustment) wouldn't always work

- Fix.GUI: Fixed delay when switching between lower view tabs

- Fix.GUI: Fixed log view could have missing entries after it exceeded 500 list items and a log resize hadn't occurred at any point (rare)

- Change.Licensing: Unspecified changes for future reseller product activations

- Change.Updater: Changed product name shown from 'ProcessLasso' to 'Process Lasso'

- Change.GUI: Advanced tools that require permission elevation can now be launched directly from the unelevated GUI

- Change.GUI: Reduced total stack use

- Change.GUI: Made custom message boxes more narrow

- Change.GUI: A few misc. code tweaks and rewrites

- Change.GUI: Some misc. UI performance enhancements

- Change.GUI: Rewrote forced mode menu item to something more clear

- Change.Core: Re-wrote automatic gaming mode implementation so that it engages or disengages automatically upon user configuration change

- Change.Core: Switched to NT native session ID resolution

- Change.Core: Disallow multiple log events in the same millisecond (by incrementing time), for correct sorting

- Change.Core: When an actively restrained process is marked to be excluded from ProBalance, any adjustments made to that process are immediately reverted [unreleased]

- Change.All: Converted entire project to UNICODE (previously only portions were UNICODE)

- Change.All: Removed COM interface to process management engine (more optimal, less memory use, can run without install, and no interference from registry cleaners)

- Change.All: All additions and changes from minor version updates to v3.64

- Change.InstallHelper: Renamed auto-start registry value

- Change.Localization: Updated Russian, PTBR, Serbian, Chinese (simplified), and French translations

- Removal.Installer: Remove deprecated processcontrol.dll and common.dll

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