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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Request: protect specific applications from taming

« on: May 01, 2009, 12:37 PM »

omg!!!!! thanks Mouser . . . . . now why didn't I see that option there before? Did you just sneak in a top-secret invisible automatic update last night like Micro$oft does????? j/k   lol                thanks

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ProcessTamer / Feature Request: protect specific applications from taming

« on: April 29, 2009, 11:08 AM »

Hi,

I *love* ProcessTamer, so thank you Mouser! After 2 years of using it I finally thought of a way to improve it.

In addition to the rules that set an application to specific priorities like Above Normal etc, there could be a drop-down value for "Don't Tame" which will allow the program to set its own priority and not be tamed even if it's using 100% of resources for an extended period.

This would be useful for Nero.exe, which seems to raise its priority to High when actually burning. I don't want to have to leave it foreground in order to protect it, but I don't want to Force High because when it's not really burning it doesn't usually want to be at that priority level.

So there's my idea! Hope it gets consideration. Thanks again!

 
~Nicole

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ProcessTamer / optimizing network usage? NetworkTamer?

« on: December 19, 2007, 01:26 AM »

I have *no* idea how hard this idea is or if it's a seperate program or could be an enhancement to ProcessTamer . . . but . .

It would be so cool if I could optimize my crappy internet connection in a way similar to ProcessTamer's optimization of CPU usage. I could set my webcam programs to get High priority to network resources, set Thunderbird to Low to keep it working unobtrusively in the background, set Firefox to be High when it's in the forground and Low in the background, etc.

I know Windoze has the process priority concept built in, and I'm not sure if my idea crosses into QoS or things like that which are not really supported in Windoze, so I don't know how feasible this is without creating some kind of driver or low-level thing that intercepts network calls and then prioritizes them before letting the system send them through the network card, but it would be really really cool.

Basically ProcessTamer is great software that helps me overload my slow, old, computers and I wish there were a similar utility to let me get more out of my slow, crappy, internet connection!

Anyway, thank you to DonationCoder because I'm very appriciative of you sharing all this great software