Process Lasso is a free tool designed to manage and edit how your processes and services run.
It offers a robust list of capabilities, including default process priorities and affinities, termination of disallowed processes, instance count limits, a system responsiveness graph, logging of processes, and keeping select processes running (auto-restart).
Process Lasso Features:
● ProBalance dynamic priority optimization ● Persistent (sticky) priorities and CPU affinities ● Instance count limits ● Disallowed processes ● Keep processes running (auto-restart) ● Unique system responsiveness graph ● Prevent PC sleep for designated processes ● Differentiate between svchost.exe instances ● Extremely low resource use ● Stand-alone process management engine (uses as little as 1MB of RAM) ● Event logging
Editor's Note: The pro version price starts at $29.95 and provides a full feature set. The free version does provide most features; however, some are trial only. You can view the comparison here.
Microsoft Process Explorer quickly displays information about which handles and DLL processes have opened or loaded. Handle is the command-line version.