I use this utility to prevent instability and to speed the boot process. At Giveaway of the Day, for the next 15+ hours it’s yours for free. Read the Readme.txt . You’ll have to enter the serial number to complete the registration. This is one you can update, also. Save the key number, because it’ll ask for it when you wish to update.

“Process Lasso is NOT yet another task manager; it is a process optimization and automation utility. One of Process Lasso’s most popular features is a unique technology called ProBalance (Process Balance) that will improve your PC’s responsiveness and stability.

Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without sufficient restraint – leading to hangs and micro-lags. ProBalance intelligently adjusts the priorities of running programs on-demand so that badly behaved processes won’t negatively impact the responsiveness of your PC. It does this not by raising process priorities, but instead by temporarily lowering the priorities of background processes that may be interfering with foreground responsiveness. In addition to ProBalance, there are countless features allowing the user to take full automated control of the processes on their PC. You can have a wide range operations performed, or settings applied, each time a process is run.” – bitsum

System Requirements: For all editions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, and Windows 7.

You can get the free versions at the website (x32 or x64) or get the ProEdition.

Bitsum website: http://www.bitsum.com/

Giveaway of the day: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/processlasso/