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Changelog

v14.0.1.10 – Mar 20, 2024

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Fix to visibility of NUMA node controls on some systems
(3) Core: Adjust ProBalance defaults for some systems
(5) GUI: Improvements to mechanism to migrate users to new default ProBalance settings
(9) GUI: Translation updates

v14.0.0.40 – Mar 7, 2024 – Release Announcement

  • Add named CPU affinities
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(3) GUI: Add named CPU affinities. Once created in the select CPU affinity dialog, they are listed in the context menus.
(5) GUI: Fix log max size input dialog could open hidden behind main window
(5) GUI: In startup config dialog prohibit continuing if Governor set to run as a specific user but password is not supplied
(7) GUI: Localize CPU topology string shown in status bar and elsewhere
(7) GUI: Replace thread priority boost enabled asterisk on priority class name with ‘-‘ when thread priority boosts are disabled
(7) GUI: Prune some unused strings
(9) GUI: Add language name to user-agent
(11) GUI: Adjust ProBalance defaults for heterogeneous processors
(11) GUI: Various code additions to support planned enhancements
(23) GUI: Adjust order of Tools submenu
(27) GUI: Hide processor group droplist when not applicable instead of only disabling it in CPU affinity and sets dialogs
(27) GUI: Move ‘None’ (no rule) to top of CPU affinity context menu, trading places with select CPU affinity
(35) GUI: Cosmetic improvements to CPU affinity and sets dialogs
(35) GUI: Hide NUMA node checkboxes that aren’t applicable instead of only disabling them in CPU affinity and sets dialogs
(35) GUI: Fix a flicker that could be seen in the CPU affinity and sets dialogs when acting on a large number of cores
(39) GUI: Add a separator to the current CPU affinity process context submenu
(39) GUI: Translation updates (continuous)

v12.5.0.38 – Feb 12, 2024

  • Improved support of Power Modes
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Small optimizations
(1) GUI: When a process is in EcoQoS but has a non-idle priority class, call it “Partial Efficiency Mode”
(3) SessionAgent: Minor code maintenance
(9) GUI: Treat “Refresh Interval (*) / Pause” as toggles, going to default refresh rate when user unchecks
(11) GUI: Instantaneously refresh when unpausing GUI
(13) GUI: Expand some control widths on Config Profile Switcher config dialog
(13) GUI: Add a separator to Config Profile submenu
(15) GUI/Core: Fix an issue with commas in Config Profile Switcher rules
(17) ThreadRacer: Mark E-cores with ‘E’ appendage
(23) GUI: Adjust when power modes (overlays of Balanced) are shown in addition to traditional power plans
(25) GUI: Prepend Balanced power plan name to power modes
(25) GUI: Show traditional Balanced power plan on power mode systems
(25) GUI: Remove success message boxes when new power profile rules added by context menu
(27) GUI: Allow embedded commas in Performance Mode rules (RegEx not supported by this feature)
(27) GUI: Show message if user tries to use RegEx on a Performance Mode rule
(31) GUI: Fixed sorted listbox on generic power plan selection dialog could cause unexpected initial selection
(33) Installer: Try to continue if there is an error result from CoInitializeEx
(35) Core: Have Performance Mode default to Max Performance Overlay on Power Mode systems where BHP is not installed
(37) GUI: Remove ‘Restart Process Lasso?’ message after BHP install or uninstall action, just restart the app
(38) GUI: Minor cosmetic work to CPU affinity dialogs

v12.4.7.20 – Jan 12, 2024

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Fix an issue changing existing I/O and memory priority rules from the context menu
(5) GUI: Improvements to translation tools
(9) GUI: Change default sort order of Insights to descending by restraint count
(11) GUI: Remove ‘critical’ I/O priority level since it cannot be enforced
(13) GUI/Core: Add common game platform launchers to stock ProBalance exclusions
(15) GUI: Large updates to Finnish and German translations
(15) GUI: Fix an issue with the username display on ProBalance graph tooltips

v12.4.6.10 – Jan 5, 2024

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Fix suspended process state not always indicated in status column
(3) GUI: Add P/E core count to CPU topology string for About dialog and status bar
(5) GUI: Change copyright to 2024
(5) GUI: Fix issue where eco leaf icons weren’t painted on core graphs under certain conditions
(7) GUI: When there is insufficient width for eco leaf icons draw circles instead
(7) GUI/Core: Add Epic Games to automatic game detection
(9) GUI: Support context menu in filtered log view

v12.4.5.8 – Dec 28, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Improve action confirmation flow on terminate and restart of critical system processes (e.g. explorer)
(7) GUI: Fix reset config action didn’t clear overrides of hard-coded ProBalance exclusions
(7) GUI: Fix to ThreadRacer control ordering
(9) GUI/Core: Revert previous change to ‘Automatic Game Detection’ default value, now ON again. Only new installs or users who reset their config were affected by this change.

v12.4.4.22 – Dec 20, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI.AffinitiesDialog: Add ‘Show Advanced’ link and hide delay edit control by default
(1) GUI/Core: Allow wildcards in Performance Mode basename matches (previously only full paths)
(5) GUI: Add IdleSaver exclusion list management to its config dialog
(11) GUI: Disable automatic game detection for Performance Mode by default for new installs
(11) GUI: Change order of ‘Options / Power’ submenu and move Bitsum Highest Performance options from General
(13) Core: Fix an issue where processes with 0 threads were not being treated as suspended
(13) Core: Fix an issue where enforcing Efficiency Mode on a suspended process could result in a zombie process under some conditions
(22) GUI: Adjustments to tray icon handling

v12.4.3.14 – Nov 29, 2023

  • Add option ‘Pause on Right-Click’

(3) GUI: Add new option ‘Pause on Right-Click’, defaulting to true. This pauses the list and graph when the process context menu is open.
(5) GUI: Show paused icon on graph when paused

v12.4.2.44 – Nov 11, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Add ‘Stagger’, ‘P-Cores’ and ‘E-Cores’ buttons to CPU Affinity selection
(11) GUI: Add System Timer Resolution option to apply the change globally
(29) GUI/Core: Support embedded commas in Disallowed Processes rules
(35) GUI/Core: Extend RegEx to I/O, memory priority, and disallowed process rules
(39) GUI/Core: Decouple SmartTrim’s Standby List and File Cache purge operations

v12.4.1.10 – Oct 13, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) Build: Remove redundant digital signature on some modules
(3) Core: Move IdleSaver recovery info for improper termination to registry
(3) Core: Adjust cleanup order when exiting with app power plan, performance mode and/or IdleSaver active
(5) Core: Fix an issue where Efficiency Mode OFF rules were enforcing a normal priority class, overriding any other priority rules on the process
(5) GUI: When turning Efficiency Mode OFF, only reset the priority class if it was previously idle
(7) GUI: Adjust some legacy module file versions to be consistent with product version

v12.4.0.44 – Sept 26, 2023Release Announcement

  • E-core distinction in graphs
  • Delayed CPU affinity rules
  • ‘Remove all rules’ process action
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI.CoreGraphs: Owner draw on light themes too (changes appearance)
(1) GUI.CoreGraphs: Append ‘Efficiency’ to tooltip when E-core
(1) GUI.CoreGraphs: Overlay leaf icon on Efficiency cores
(7) GUI: Fix issue where rules column wouldn’t immediately refresh after automated config profile switch
(9) GUI: Add ProBalance option to not change CPU affinity if already customized
(11) ThreadRacer: Expand to 16 threads plus one with selectable affinity
(11) ThreadRacer: Add message if start attempted with no selected threads
(11) ThreadRacer: Disable checkboxes while started
(11) ThreadRacer: Add ‘invert selection’ and ‘clear’ buttons
(13) GUI.InstanceBalancer: Add confirmation if dialog dismissed via OK button with unadded rule in controls
(13) GUI/Core: Add CPU affinity rules setting to delay enforcement, for games that have trouble at startup with custom affinities
(21) GUI: Address assorted minor localization issues (control widths, etc…)
(23) GUI: Color tweaks
(25) GUI: Don’t show CPU cores in context menus if more than 32
(27) GUI: On heterogenous systems, when a new Performance Mode rule is added by context menu, ask if an Efficiency Mode OFF rule should also be created.
(27) GUI: Don’t show success messages when rules created by process context menu
(27) GUI: Add ‘General / Bitsum Highest Performance’ submenu and new ‘Reinitialize’ action
(27) Core: Set Bitsum Highest Performance to prefer performant processors (P-cores) for short and long running threads when plugged in
(29) GUI: Minor cosmetic and menu tweaks
(29) GUI: Add ‘Remove All Rules’ action to process context menus (single and multi-select). This removes all rules defined exactly for this process. Other matching wildcard rules may remain.
(31) GUI: Various minor cosmetic improvements
(31) GUI: Periodically refresh total installed RAM shown in status bar for dynamic VMs
(39) GUI: Have ProBalance drop one random core setting honor existing or configured CPU affinity
(39) GUI: Remove ProBalance option ’round robin affinity’, migrating to ‘drop one random core’
(39) GUI: Remove Watchdog set affinity action option ’round robin’

v12.3.2.20 – Sept 1, 2023

  • Tie idle priority class to Efficiency Mode to match Task Manager’s behavior
  • Fix an issue where cores could incorrectly show as parked on Intel 12th+
    (also impacts Task Manager and Resource Monitor)
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Fix manual power profile switch while using a ‘start with’ (base) power profile proceeds despite message that it can’t
(1) Core: Remove special handling of audiodg.exe when ‘Ignore problematic processes’ is checked (not default)
(3) Core: Apply Efficiency Mode rules after priority rules
(3) Core/GUI: When turning on Efficiency Mode, also set idle priority class to match Task Manager behavior
(9) GUI: Enable ‘Install/Uninstall BHP’ menu actions to work on Power Mode systems
(11) GUI: Move ‘Install BHP’ to ‘Options / General’ submenu
(13) GUI: Don’t show cores as parked if there is a load on them, despite performance counter values; fixes cores can show incorrectly as parked, an issue also impacting Task Manager and Resource Monitor.
(17) GUI: Continuously reapply Efficiency Mode OFF rules to reset any individual threads that may have been put into Efficiency Mode

v12.3.1.20 – July 18, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Add new variable to Watchdog launch action, %5 for session ID (or use %sessionid%)
(3) GUI: Rename process context menu item ‘Application Power Profile’ to ‘Power Profile’
(5) Installer: On new install, ensure config file is initialized prior to Governor start, eliminating an inconsequential load error log entry
(7) GUI: If Governor service is disabled, reenable it automatically when user tries to start it
(9) Insights: Fix sort preference could be lost when ProBalance event occurs while dialog open
(9) Insights: Improve sort of frequency of action column
(9) Insights: Persist sort-by and direction preference
(11) GUI: Fix tray icon tooltip could show stale info under some circumstances
(13) Install: Add localized description to Governor service
(13) Install: Refactored service management code to remove legacy MakeService executable (bitumms.exe)
(15) MMSC: Remove superfluous warning from Multimedia Scheduler Configuration Tool
(15) GUI: Add ‘Locate / Properties’ process context menu item to invoke the shell file properties dialog
(17) GUI: Fix three strings whose translations were not being applied
(19) Core: Fix Instance Balancer non-regex wildcard matches weren’t being tested against pathnames

v12.3.0.24 – June 7, 2023 – Release Announcement

  • Add support for Windows 11’s Efficiency Mode

(1) GUI: Process status column ‘Running’ state is now implicit if no other notable state
(1) GUI: Include Efficiency Mode in process status column
(1) Core/GUI: Add Efficiency Mode rules
(7) GUI: Improve tab ordering in ProBalance advanced options dialog
(7) Core/GUI: Add ProBalance option to use Efficiency Mode during restraints
(9) GUI: Functional improvements to ProBalance advanced options dialog regarding dynamically enabled/disabled suboptions
(13) GUI: Make persistance of custom System Timer Resolution a Pro feature
(13) GUI: Don’t show ‘Balanced’ power plan in ‘Start Process Lasso with power plan’ submenu on power mode systems (only the overlays)
(13) GUI: Expand width of match phrase edit controls in Watchdog and Disallowed Processes dialogs
(13) GUI: Add double-click to remove item and populate edit box in Disallowed Processes dialog
(13) GUI: Add ‘Access denied’ messagebox if changing current priority class by context menu fails
(13) GUI: Change affinity set error to ‘Access denied’ to match priority change error
(15) GUI: Swap default column positions of ‘Status’ and ‘ProBalance time’
(17) GUI: Change IdleSaver exclusion rule symbol from ‘e’ to ‘f’
(17) GUI: Set Efficiency Mode ON and OFF rule symbols to ‘E’ and ‘e’, respectively
(19) InstallHelper: Make CoInitializeSecurity failure a non-critical error

v12.2.0.16 – May 23, 2023

  • Add tool to change and persist System Timer Resolution
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(3) GUI: Add tool to set and persist System Timer Resolution up to 0.5ms, at ‘Tools / System Timer Resolution’
(13) GUI: When IdleSaver default timeout filled in config dialog, use minutes if evenly divisible
(13) GUI: When IdleSaver enabled for the first time via tray menu, inducing the config dialog, don’t enable if dialog is aborted
(13) GUI: When IdleSaver enabled for the first time via tray menu, inducing the config dialog, set default timeout appropriately
(15) GUI: On ‘File / Import Configuration’, show distinct error if the INI file selected is the one that is currently in use
(15) GUI: On ‘File / Import Configuration’, don’t set the initial browse directory to the current INI path

v12.1.0.26 – Apr 3, 2023

  • Add new copy-to-clipboard process context menu actions
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Prohibit automated update when device is in fullscreen mode, and fallback to notification
(5) GUI: Fix an issue in Watchdog dialog where added rules could disappear under certain scenarios
(9) GUI: Make CPU Sets feature free in beta builds
(15) GUI.ProcessContextMenu: Change case of ‘Select CPU Affinity’
(15) GUI.ProcessContextMenu: Reorder ‘More’ submenu
(15) GUI.ProcessContextMenu: Move ‘Trim Memory’ to top-level
(15) GUI.ProcessContextMenu: Move ‘Processor Group Extender’ to More submenu
(19) GUI.ProcessContextMenu: Add new ‘Copy’ (to clipboard) submenu
(23) GUI: Fix an issue where paint artifacts may be seen in Active Processes listview when it refreshes

v12.0.4.4 – Feb 22, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Fix an issue in shell32.ExtractAssociatedIcon call that could cause a crash when processes are running from remote paths
(1) GUI: Translation updates
(1) All: Renewed code signing certificate

v12.0.3.16 – Feb 3, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) Installer: Improve EULA formatting
(1) GUI: Improve German splash screen text
(1) GUI: Show notification when Process Lasso starts with Keep Awake Indefinite still active
(1) GUI/Core: Allow Keep Awake Indefinite setting to persist across reboots
(1) GUI: Add registry option to disable Keep Awake Indefinite from persisting across reboots, HKLM\Software\ProcessLasso:KeepAwakeResetOnReboot (dword bool)
(7) GUI: Cosmetic to ‘Main / Keep Awake’ submenu
(9) GUI: Allow exit from beta channel while using a beta version, occurring upon the next update to a release version
(11) GUI: Translation updates
(13) GUI: Expand caption control widths (for longer languages) in dialogs: CPU Priorities, CPU Affinities, I/O Priorities, CPU Sets

v12.0.2.18 – Jan 3, 2023

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Improve control alignment in IdleSaver config dialog
(3) GUI: Suppress INI parsing error messageboxes from Governor when running as a service
(3) GUI: Show precise error message if Workstation key used on Server Edition
(7) Build: Minor maintenance to build scripts
(7) GUI: Add /activateonly command line parameter to ProcessLasso.exe to perform any deferred license activation from installer, then exit
(7) GUI: Standardize /no_raise_existing command line parameter to /NoRaiseExisting
(7) GUI/LogViewer: Replace filter edit control search and clear icons with shell stock icons
(9) GUI: Refresh filtered view when process rules change
(15) GUI: Expand width of edit controls in CPU affinity and CPU Sets dialogs
(15) GUI: Right-align captions on edit controls in CPU Sets rules dialog
(17) GUI: Change copyright years to 2023

v12.0.1.6 – Nov 23, 2022

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(5) GUI: Fix graph tooltip was vertically clipped with some system font scalings
(3) GUI: Fix tray icon wouldn’t properly reflect CPU Utility % values exceeding 100%
(1) GUI: Add product version to user-agent string

v12.0.0.24 – Nov 15, 2022 – Release Announcement

  • Support for Power Modes (overlays)
  • Switch to CPU Utility %
  • Support 3995WX CPU topology
  • Other fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI.WatchdogDialog: Remove warning about overly broad rules
(1) Core: Add log entry type for error restarting process or service by Watchdog
(3) GUI: Add option to disable graph tooltips
(5) GUI: Add option to show CPU Utility % instead of CPU Time % in graph and tray, default to ON
(7) GUI/Core: Add support for Balanced Power Modes (overlays)
(13) GUI: Have CPU core graphs also use CPU Utility % instead of Time %, if configured and available
(15) Core: Add ‘Threads’ (count) and ‘IO’ (total cumulative) columns to sampling output
(15) GUI: Fix issue where graph tooltips would cause main window to be inactive, changing titlebar colors
(15) GUI: Add support for topologies where a NUMA node contains more than 64 logical cores, spanning multiple groups (e.g. 3995wx on Win10 21H1+)
(19) GUI: Fix to CPU Affinity dialog NUMA node checkboxes
(21) GUI/Core: On systems using power overlays, don’t allow Balanced power plan use in rules and settings created by older versions
(25) GUI: After config reset by menu item, reapply GUI refresh interval

v11.1.1.26 – Oct 10, 2022

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) Installer: Enable Spanish language selection
(3) GUI: Improvements to product activator
(5) GUI: When filter edit controls have focus, TAB can escape to their respective listview
(7) GUI: Add dark mode to some frequently seen dialogs
(11) Core/GUI: Default core parking adjustment log entries to ON (when done by ProBalance, if option set)
(11) Core: Fix an issue where some log entry types could continue to be emitted despite logging disabled
(11) GUI: Add menu items to toggle logging of CPU Sets and Group Extender rules
(13) Core: Adapt ProBalance option ‘Disable CPU Core Parking during action’ to Intel 12th Gen
(13) Core: Change failsafe recovery core parking options from HKCU to HKLM (used after improper Governor shutdown if ProBalance option ‘Disable CPU Core Parking during action’ was used)
(15) GUI: Fix an issue where clearing the log while it is updating could deadlock
(15) Core: Fix an issue where a Watchdog rule that restarts a service may fail to do so
(17) GUI/LogViewer: Minor improvements to log monitoring thread
(17) GUI/LogViewer: Use filesystem change notifications on UNC paths when available
(17) GUI.WatchdogRulesDialog: Fix an issue where emptying the rule list completely using the Remove button would not be immediately committed to the INI on save
(17) LogViewer: Add CTRL+X accelerator to clear log
(19) GUI.PriorityClassRulesDialog: Expanded width and other cosmetic
(19) GUI.ProBalanceExclusionsDialog: Fix handling of match strings with embedded commas
(19) GUI/Core: Refactor priority class rules, now supporting Regular Expressions
(21) GUI.ProBalanceExclusionsDialog: Cosmetic
(23) GUI: Add dark mode support to activation dialog

v11.1.0.34 – Sept 6, 2022 – Release Announcement

  • Instance Balancer additions
  • Translation improvements

(1) GUI: Standardize tooltip process format to “PID:USER”
(3) Translations: Add Korean language
(5) Core: Adjust error message when a crash occurs but a dump couldn’t be generated
(5) GUI: Add Responsiveness and Memory Load to graph tooltip
(9) GUI.Instance Balancer: Hide some options behind a ‘Show Advanced’ button
(9) GUI.Instance Balancer: Add ‘Disable SMT’ rule option
(11) rcTools: Improve printf format specifier validation on imported languages
(13) GUI: Instance Balancer: Cosmetic improvements to rules dialog
(13) GUI: Expand CPU Affinity static text control width for translations
(13) GUI: Fix ‘Up’ button not translated
(15) GUI/Core: Gracefully handle any memory allocation failure during services enum
(15) GUI: Support tree view mode when process icons disabled
(19) GUI: Translation updates and cosmetic adjustments
(21) GUI: Fix menu item ‘Options / General / Refresh Interval (GUI) / 5 seconds’
(21) GUI: On new CPU affinity rule by context menu, populate dialog with current CPU affinity
(21) Translations: Tooling improvements
(23) GUI.Insights: Replace bitmap with Process Lasso logo
(23) Core.SmartTrim: Exclude Memory Compression process from SmartTrim (no access to act anyway)
(23) GUI: Make internet search URLs HTTPS (previously de facto HTTPS by way of HSTS)
(29) Updater: Better ensure bitsumsessionagent.exe is terminated before trying to replace
(31) GUI: Set proper font on graph tooltips

v11.0.0.34 – Aug 15, 2022 – Release Announcement

  • Processes tree view
  • More useful graph tooltips

(1) GUI: Enlarge and improve Disallowed Processes config dialog
(1) GUI: Remove ‘do not ask again’ option from real-time priority class warning messagebox
(1) GUI: Move ‘Options / General / Reset Do Not Show Again Memory’ to ‘View / Reset’
(1) GUI: All Processes tab: Add column for parent process PID and basename
(1) GUI: All Processes tab: Add tree view (3rd sort option for name column)
(9) GUI: Show graph tooltip at any point, giving most active process, CPU utilization, and ProBalance events at that time
(11) GUI: Add Clear Log menu item under ‘View / Reset’
(11) GUI: Add CTRL+X accelerator to clear log
(17) GUI: Restore ‘Buy now’ button above lower pane for unlicensed users
(21) GUI: Switch to native messagebox for some locations where choice can’t be persisted by user (e.g. terminate now)
(21) GUI: Add CTRL+F accelerator to jump to filter edit controls
(23) GUI: Change name of Instance Balancer ‘static core count’ algorithm to ‘fixed core count’
(23) GUI: Add tooltips to Instance Balancer config dialog

v10.4.8.8 – June 8, 2022

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) Core/GUI: Improvements to service management code
(1) GUI: Fix service tracking for process associations (name appendages) could become stale
(5) All: Update to VS 2022 17.2.3
(5) GUI: Language updates

v10.4.7.22 – May 9, 2022

  • Offer to repair system performance counters if they are dysfunctional
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(5) Core: Change method of finding processor efficiency classes
(7) GUI: Add ‘Options / General / Experimental’ submenu
(11) Core/GUI: Add support for as yet undeployed minidump upload tool
(11) GUI: Add ‘Options / General / Experimental / Generate Crash Dump’
(11) GUI: CPU core graphs: Don’t treat error getting core parking status (broken performance counter) as parked
(11) GUI: Add ‘Options / Tools / Repair [System] Performance Counters’
(11) GUI: If system performance counter(s) appear damaged, ask user then attempt repair with “lodctr.exe /R”, et. al (beta builds only)
(13) GUI: Remove ‘frequent updates’ warning when ‘Include Betas’ is checked
(15) GUI: Enforce depth limit of ProBalance event timestamp history used by graph tooltips
(19) GUI: Minidump generation: A second messagebox asking if user wants to submit now; opens submission URL
(21) Core/GUI: Improvements to base process enumeration and tracking code
(21) GUI: When IdleSaver enabled by menu, only open options dialog when enabled for first time
(23) GUI: Make log size limit edit control numeric only

v10.4.6.20 – Apr 15, 2022

  • Support processor groups of unequal size (rare)
  • Improvements to Instance Balancer, including multi-group support
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Add support for processor groups of unequal sizes
(3) Core: Add Instance Balancer processor group support (balances to all groups)
(5) Core: Improve behavior of Instance Balancer ‘reserved cores’ setting when there are more instances than cores. Now reserves first X cores of each processor group.
(9) GUI: General maintenance to web interface code (updates, activation)
(9) Core/GUI: Fix a crash that could occur under certain rare conditions
(11) GUI: Remove some deprecated code
(13) GUI: Adjustment to tray ProBalance event icon switch handling
(19) Core: Fix ‘Start with’ (base) power profile setting would override power profile switch by manually induced Performance Mode

v10.4.5.28 – Mar 24, 2022

  • Assorted fixes and enhancements

(3) Core/GUI: Change Instance Balancer boolean option ‘Only include instances with CPU use’ to floating point ‘CPU use threshold’
(5) GUI: Remove some deprecated code
(7) GUI: Fix ‘Switch to GaaP’ syslink not hidden on Keep Running rules dialog when already GaaP
(9) Core: Fix a memory leak when SmartTrim is enabled and a trim working sets action occurs (free RAM was less than threshold)
(13) GUI: Instance Balancer Dialog, improve behavior when user toggles from static to dynamic algorithm and then adds rule with artifact of a non-zero static core count
(13) GUI: Instance Balancer Dialog, rename algorithms to ‘Dynamic core count (spread evenly)’ and ‘Static core count’
(15) Core: General code maintenance
(17) Core: Improved method of ensuring handle cache coherency, fixing a handle leak
(19) Installer: Fix an issue with deferred activation code on command line using /key parameter
(21) GUI: Fix filtered listviews weren’t immediately adopting user customizations to column orders and widths
(21) Core: Fix default value for SmartTrim Clear Standby List ‘only when free RAM less than’ on new installs
(21) Core: Change new process log events to use lowercase basenames for consistency
(25) Core: Fix an issue where Group Extender could consume excess compute when multiple group extensions are active simultaneously

v10.4.4.20 – Feb 18, 2022

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) All: Switch to 2022 EV code signing certificate
(1) GUI: Improve signal to update licensee name display when activation status changes
(3) GUI: Fix tray icon wasn’t changing to indicate a ProBalance action with GaaS
(5) GUI: Add ‘View / Tray Icon’ menu option to toggle changing of tray icon upon ProBalance action
(5) GUI: Add HCKU registry setting ‘TrayProBalanceIconDurationMS’ to adjust duration ProBalance icon is shown in tray upon action (default 1500ms)
(5) GUI: Fix CPU utility and time were transposed in status bar
(7) GUI: Fix an extraneous registry key created in last release
(11) GUI: When Watchdog or Keep Running rules require GaaP, show notice and one-click ‘switch to GaaP’ syslink in their config dialogs
(13) GUI: Add /trimnow command line switch to initiate SmartTrim action
(13) Core: Log error with guidance if Watchdog rule can’t restart a process due to GaaS
(17) GUI: For post-trial free installs, now allow Pro-only rule config dialogs to be opened, but restrict ‘Add’ button
(17) GUI: Make Foreground Boosting a free feature

v10.4.3.24 – Jan 28, 2022

  • Adjustment to BHP for Alder Lake on Win10 (specifically)
  • Refinement of memory priority feature
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) All: Retarget to VS2022
(1) GUI: Some cleanup to memory priority feature
(3) GUI: Show memory priority values as names throughout
(7) GUI: Instead of disabling Group Extender menu items on single group systems, show message that it only applies to multi-group systems
(9) GUI: Adjust Instance Balancer config dialog column widths
(11) Core: Fix ‘Start with’ (base) power profile wouldn’t allow IdleSaver to change the power profile
(13) GUI: Add CPU info to About dialog
(15) Core: Make Bitsum Highest Performance core parking settings compatible with Alder Lake on Win10
(17) Core: Do one-time adjustment of BHP of existing installs on Win10 /w Alder Lake, so that all P cores are unparked
(19) GUI: Add vmmem to system process warning
(19) GUI: Fix a recent crowdin integration issue, update translations
(23) GUI: Add specific error when CPU Sets edit control is empty when user tries to add rule
(23) GUI: CPU Sets rule list dialog: Add query if user clicks OK with an unadded rule

v10.4.2.16 – Jan 5, 2022

  • Add CTRL+SPACE keyboard accelerator to pause GUI display updates
  • ‘Start Process Lasso with power profile’ now acts as a base power profile when no power rules active
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) Core: Minor adjustment to Windows Error Reporting (WER) snapshot process handling
(1) GUI: Add CTRL+SPACE keyboard accelerator to pause GUI display updates
(3) GUI/Core: When no power profile rules are in effect, return to set ‘Start Process Lasso with Power Profile’
(5) GUI: Add message when user attempts manual switch of active power profile when ‘start with’ (base) power profile is set
(7) GUI: Don’t remove processes from listview while in the context menu. Fixes crash seen when process removed while taking action on it via context menu.
(9) GUI: Remove ‘Help / Change License Code’ menu item when not activated
(9) GUI: Fix activation code change wouldn’t refresh licensee name on graph until app restart
(11) All: (c) 2021 to 2022
(11) GUI: Add menu item to toggle ProBalance option to lower to Idle instead of Below Normal
(13) GUI: Add submenu ‘View / Reset’
(13) GUI: Add menu item ‘View / Reset / Reset ProBalance Counters’
(13) GUI: Move process context menu item ‘Keep Running’ to ‘More’ submenu
(13) GUI: Improve consistency of process context menu items for Hard Throttling
(13) All: Minor code maintenance

v10.4.1.18 – Dec 10 2021

  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Add up/down buttons to CPU Sets Rules List Dialog
(3) GUI: Fix to multi-select process context menu item ‘I/O Priority / Always / None’
(7) GUI: Improve RAM Load display painting
(9) GUI: Fix incorrect physical core count in status bar on Alder Lake
(13) GUI: Cosmetic tweaks to some rule config dialogs
(13) GUI: Change all ‘Remove selected’ buttons to ‘Remove’
(13) Core: Refactor process pathname retrieval code
(13) GUI: Fix handling of rare scenario when process module enumeration initially fails due to first module (the EXE) not yet loaded, previously resulting in a missing path and icon in listview (impacted GUI only)
(15) Core: Remove process pathnames from ‘More info’ field of process launched log events, since it is also included in the ‘Path’ field
(15) GUI: Minor code maintenance
(17) GUI: Fix ‘No update available’ message could be unnecessarily shown on app start after a successful manual update under some circumstances

v10.4.0.38 – Nov 11 2021 – Release Announcement

  • Add CPU Sets, a softer form of CPU Affinities
  • Alder Lake (Intel 12th Gen) support
  • Streamlined install

(3) Installer: Do not show startup config dialogs by default (now optional section)
(5) GUI: Small listview update optimizations
(7) Core: Fix an issue where GaaS may not honor chosen language when writing log entries
(15) Core/GUI: Add CPU Sets feature
(19) GUI: Move Memory Priority process context submenu out of ‘More’
(19) GUI: Show Memory Priority column by default
(19) GUI: Adjust config not writable message
(19) GUI: Remove message when Forced Mode enabled
(23) GUI: Cosmetic adjustments to CPU selection dialogs
(23) GUI: Refactor CPU Affinity rules list dialog to be like that of CPU Sets (external selection dialog)
(25) GUI: Do not throttle updates when check is manually invoked by user
(29) GUI: Cosmetic to ProBalance Exclusions dialog
(33) GUI: Adjust default position of columns in process listviews
(35) GUI: Mark Efficiency Cores with “E” in CPU selection dialogs and menu items
(35) GUI: Support Hyper-Threading disabled CPU affinities on Alder Lake
(38) Core: Fix INI syntax error message after uninstalling BHP while application power profile rule referencing it exists
(38) GUI: Cosmetic work to some rule list dialogs

v10.3.1.10 – Oct 15 2021

(7) Core: Fix an issue in prior release where Performance Mode may not be induced per rule when process path is unavailable due to anti-cheat systems
(3) Core/GUI: Add Instance Balancer option to reserve n system CPU cores
(1) Core/GUI: Add Instance Balancer option to only include process instances with CPU use
(1) GUI: Minor string and cosmetic adjustments

v10.3.0.50 – Oct 4 2021 – Release Announcement

  • New Config Profile Switcher feature
  • Add special ProBalance handling for searchindexer.exe
  • Other fixes and enhancements

(49) Core: Add ProBalance service exclusion overrides, first is searchindexer.exe
(49) Core: Minor ProBalance code maintenance
(47) GUI: Cosmetic improvements to Persistent CPU Priorities dialog
(45) GUI: Change ‘File / Profile’ menu to ‘File / Config Profile’
(41) GUI: Set default IdleSaver time to 5 minutes
(39) GUI: Add confirmation dialog on config profile deletion
(37) GUI: Update German, Italian, Chinese Simplified, others
(35) GUI: Have ‘Reset Configuration’ also clear select registry backed settings
(33) GUI: Add tooltip to CPU Limiter dialog enforcement duration edit control to indicate that 0 means indefinite
(33) GUI: Add Windows version to About dialog
(31) GUI: Improvements to IdleSaver config dialog code
(31) Core: Fix to IdleSaver exclusion matches when username specified in rule
(31) GUI: Fix an issue where memory page priority rules could store with -1 values after being removed
(27) Core: Exclude any Steam child process running from “common\mixedrealityvrdriver” or “common\steamvr” subfolders from Performance Mode automatic game detection
(25) GUI: For rule additions by context menu, remove any matching exact (non-wildcard) full pathname rule before adding basename rule
(25) GUI: Change ‘No default priority’ and ‘No default affinity’ menu items to ‘None’ for consistency
(25) GUI: Add ‘None’ to multi-select persistent I/O priority context menu
(25) GUI/Core: Refactor some settings storage code
(23) GUI: Add menu item ‘Options / Log / Set Max Log File Size’ to set corresponding registry value
(23) GUI: Remove deprecated ‘Keep log pruned’ menu option and INI setting
(17) GUI: Remove deprecated code related to removed Active Processes tab CPU bar graphs
(17) GUI: Various improvements to Config Profiles
(15) GUI: Add error message on attempt to create config profile that already exists
(15) GUI: Manage Profiles Dialog: Fix ‘Create New’ would not always immediately refresh list afterwards
(15) GUI: Add Create Config Profile option to start with empty profile or copy current
(11) GUI: Change default config profile name to ‘My First Profile’
(9) GUI/Core: Add Config Profile Switcher feature
(7) GUI: Fix issue where dynamic thread priority boost disabled rule removal by context menu wouldn’t immediately re-enable boosting for that process instance.
(5) Installer: Refactor some language selection code
(1) SessionAgent: Fix crash on Windows 32-bit OSes
(1) GUI: Adjust Tools submenu captions

v10.2.0.40 – Aug 1 2021 – Release Announcement

  • Improvement to ProBalance
  • Refactored Foreground Boosting
  • Add Internet Explorer Restriction feature
  • Deploy Bitsum Session Agent for GaaP installs too
  • Windows 11 support
  • Other fixes and enhancements

(37) Core: Fix an issue with Instance Balancer ‘childof:’ rules with no space before process name match
(35) Insights: Improvements with greater than normal system text size or scaling
(31) GUI: Change real-time priority warning message and behavior
(31) CPUEaterDemo: Rename CPU consumer in SFX (live EXE) to testlasso.exe instead of bg.tst
(31) Core: Minor code improvements
(29) GUI: Add ‘Exclude from Foreground Boost’ process context menu item under More
(29) GUI: Remove superfluous cancel button from ‘foreground boosting not recommended’ warning messagebox
(25) GUI: Internal adjustment to cancel/close behavior of generic list dialog
(25) GUI: Cosmetic to generic list dialog (foreground boost exclusions, Group Extender, SmartTrim exclusions …)
(23) GUI: Add Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe) restriction feature under ‘Options / Control’
(23) GUI: Add foreground boost exclusions list dialog
(19) CPUEaterDemo: Launch CPU consumer as an orphaned background process, given default foreground exclusion setting. This makes the demo more user friendly and more accurately simulates a real-world background CPU consuming process.
(19) CPUEaterDemo: Add explanatory text regarding treatment of foreground processes
(19) CPUEaterDemo: Cosmetic work
(19) GUI: Allow previously enabled foreground boosting to be disabled in Free versions past trial
(17) GUI: Add ‘Boost to High Priority’ (instead of Above Normal) foreground boost option
(15) Install: Always deploy bitsumsessionagent, including with GaaP
(13) GUI: Language updates
(11) Core: Refactor foreground priority class boosting to work with GaaS and multiple simultaneous sessions
(11) Core: Add foreground boost option to exclude non-normal priority classes
(11) Core: Remove foreground thread boosting
(11) GUI: Refactor foreground boosting submenu, adding new options
(11) GUI: Minor menu adjustments to ‘Options / CPU’
(9) Core: Migrate to GetTickCount64 in ProBalance timing
(9) Core: Add distinct log entry when ProBalance ends due to entry into foreground
(9) Core.ProBalance: When ‘ignore children of foreground process’ enabled, end restraint if parent enters foreground
(9) Core.ProBalance: If non-normal priority classes are not excluded, ensure that idle priority classes are not raised to below normal
(9) GUI: Minor cosmetic to ProBalance Options dialog
(7) GUI: Fix config reset by menu not clearing some rule types
(1) Core: Add an experimental feature
(1) GUI: Remove ‘Always Allow Dark Mode’ menu item
(1) GUI: Support Windows 11 in OS build string

v10.1.0.42 – June 15 2021 – Release Announcement

  • Dark mode for CPU core graphs, statusbar, and menubar
  • Improved tab control appearance in light mode
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(33) GUI: Improvements to RAM Load graph control
(25) GUI: Minor menu caption tweaks
(19) GUI: Dark CPU core graphs
(17) GUI: Adjust statusbar Windows build text
(17) GUI: Reduce frequency of statusbar partition resizing
(15) LogViewer: Add dark menubar
(15) Insights: Add dark menubar
(13) GUI: Don’t owner draw tab controls in light mode (restores full visual effects)
(11) GUI: Add dark statusbar
(11) GUI: Minor changes to updater
(9) GUI: Fix a duplicated colon in About dialog license details
(7) GUI: Add dark menubar
(3) GUI: Add options to toggle dark menubar and statusbar
(1) GUI: Abide by BHP uninstall if done through ParkControl (and vice-versa)
(1) GUI: Add more version info to copyable section of About box

v10.0.3.6 – May 12 2021

  • Update several languages
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Fix a problem when user toggles between views while filtering in progress
(1) GUI: Preserve process filter when switching between All and Active views
(5) GUI: Remove French from out-of-date list
(5) GUI: Update several languages

v10.0.2.24 – Apr 12 2021

  • Update several languages
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(23) GUI: Language updates
(19) GUI: Remove ‘Show notification when power plan changes’ menu item
(13) GUI: Add Bulgarian
(11) GUI: Fix ‘Log’ menu caption not translated
(11) Core: Fix SmartTrim ‘Trim Now’ menu item didn’t work with GaaS
(9) GUI: Change caption for ‘Reconfigure the way Process Lasso starts’ to ‘Configure Startup’
(7) GUI: Minor cosmetic changes
(1) GUI/Installer: Minor code improvements

v10.0.1.16 – March 29 2021

  • Update several languages
  • Minor fixes and enhancements

(15) GUI: Add back Spanish, with warning about incomplete state
(13) GUI: Show listview column sort indicator arrows on init instead of only after change
(11) GUI: Support listview numeric sorting on 64-bit integer fields
(11) GUI: Improve log listview sort behavior
(9) Core: Fix caption for log action 0x1C (application power profile enforced)
(9) GUI: Fix ‘View / Reset Column Layout’ would not order log listview columns as intended
(7) GUI: Fix Window Error Reporting (WER) process zombies
(3) GUI/Core: Minor other changes
(1) GUI: Add CPU Time column to Active Processes list
(1) Installer: Remove deprecated bcleaner module
(1) GUI: Update several languages

v10.0.0.164 – March 12 2021Release Announcement

  • Refactored log system with CSV as primary
  • Ordered CPU affinity and priority rules
  • Periodic process sampling (snapshots)
  • GUI improvements
  • CrowdIn integration for translations
  • Numerous fixes and enhancements

(1) GUI: Further increase multi-threadedness of display updates
(1) GUI: On config save error, show error message and offer to elevate
(3) GUI: Add code to enable asynchronous listview updates
(5) Core: Enforce SmartTrim exclusions when only basename given
(5) GUI: Add menu item for direct access to SmartTrim exclusions
(5) GUI: Check ‘Induce Performance Mode’ context menu item when appropriate even if no pathname available
(5) GUI: When when adding SmartTrim exclusion by context menu use basename if no pathname available
(7) Localization: Integration with Crowdin (translation platform)
(11) GUI: Adjust default column ordering of Active Processes listview
(15) GUI: Integrate more languages to Crowdin
(17) Core: Add registry setting for max log file size before rotate (HKLM\Software\ProcessLasso\MaxLogFileSize)
(17) Core: Tweak default log file size limit
(19) Core: Add periodic process sampling function (emits to CSV)
(19) Core: For process creation log events, remove ‘UNKNOWN PARENT’ text when parent doesn’t or isn’t applicable (now empty string)
(19) GUI: Add new menu item ‘Options / Log / Configure sampling …’ to open sampling configuration dialog
(27) Core: Strip unavailable CPUs from CPU affinity prior to their application to handle system config change to CPU count
(39) GUI: Add ‘t’ rule character for SmartTrim exclusion
(41) Core: Fix SmartTrim log entry possible integer underflow on RAM freed display
(43) GUI: Replace active processes listview embedded CPU utilization visual with text (unicode blocks) based representation
(43) GUI: Support Dark Mode for Win10 build 21286
(47) GUI: Add ‘View / Graph components / Show power profile’ to toggle power profile text on graph
(49) GUI: About dialog: Add ‘Help Translate Process Lasso’ syslink
(49) GUI: About dialog: Remove ‘translated by’
(49) GUI: Show ‘Update not available’ message box on same monitor as application
(49) GUI: Try to set critical level I/O priorities despite being reserved for system paging operations. Add info message stating such.
(51) GUI: Switch to ‘KB’ suffix on memory metrics to standardize
(53) GUI: Improve CSV formatting of data copied to cliboard from listview selections
(57) Log: Standardize all CSV output files as UTF-8 encoding /W BOM
(59) Log: Add system time field in addition to local time (not displayed)
(59) Log: Remove deprecated log format marker file
(67) GUI: Make log listview updates more smooth
(69) GUI: Improve behavior of initial log listview population
(71) Core: Batch log writes to once per iteration
(73) All: Don’t dual-sign with SHA1 anymore, only SHA2
(73) All: Switch to Bitsum 2021 EV code signing certificate
(75) Logging: Change log filename to ‘processlasso.log’
(75) Logging: Performance improvements
(75) Logging: Reduce disk I/O
(75) Logging: Refactored to use CSV format as primary
(75) Logging: Remove now redundant ‘Export log to CSV’ menu item
(77) Core: Enforce CPU affinity rules in order configured
(77) GUI: Add up/down buttons to CPU affinity rule config dialog
(77) Logging: Log default path when GaaP is now LOCAL_APPDATA instead of APPDATA (roaming)
(81) Core: Changed default config path when GaaP to LOCAL_APPDATA instead of APPDATA (roaming)
(81) Install: Cleanup some deprecated code and file(s)
(81) Install: Do one-time migration of config when Governor installed a normal process, from roaming to local profile
(83) Core: Fix I/O priority adjustments during ProBlaance events were logged despite log disabled
(83) GUI: Remove now redundant ‘Emit CSV’ log option
(85) GUI: Several menu caption changes
(87) Core/GUI: Add option to toggle logging of process command lines (defaults off)
(87) Core: Cleanup old log files in APPDATA
(91) GUI: Refactored code behind ‘ProBalance time’ tracking column
(93) GUI: Assorted improvements
(93) GUI: Refactored code behind graph highlight (ProBalance event) tooltips
(95) GUI: Adjust limits to max log rows in GUI and LogViewer listviews
(99) GUI: Change ‘Terminate’ to ‘Close’ (graceful)
(99) GUI: Fix issue with ‘Terminate Now’ and suspended processes
(99) GUI: Make ‘Terminate Now’ always instantaneous (no attempted graceful close)
(101) Core/GUI: Migrate to new close/terminate functions (affects all features that terminate processes)
(101) GUI: Further refactoring of close/terminate functions
(101) GUI: Remove menu options to configure graceful close timeout
(101) GUI: Resurrect graceful close wait dialog, offering immediate termination by link click
(101) GUI: Some refactoring surrounding graceful process close timeout
(105) GUI: Advance major version to 10.0.0
(105) GUI: Dark mode support for menu bar
(107) GUI: Add process status column to Active processes listview
(107) GUI: Force filtered views to adopt saved columnn view layot info of unfiltered listviews
(107) GUI: Force reset of saved listview column view layout
(107) GUI: Refactoring of listview column view layout persistence (all, active, log)
(107) GUI: Remove CPU graph from active processes listview
(109) GUI: Adjust log context menu item captions
(109) GUI: Disable some log context menu items when multiple rows selected
(109) GUI: More menu captions switched to new standard
(111) Core: Improve formatting of process terminated log entries when runtime is 0 seconds
(111) GUI: Fix filter edit controls could lose top border
(115) Core: Guarantee order precedence of CPU priority class rules
(115) GUI: Add up/down buttons to CPU priority class dialog rules
(117) Core: Fix issue where multiple simultaneous Keep Awake rules of differing types could lose lesser display awake attribute
(123) Core: Improve ordering of SmartTrimExclusions key in INI config
(125) GUI: Add config dialog for Windows Dynamic Thread Boost disabled processes
(125) GUI: Add wildcard support to Windows Dynamic Thread Boosts
(127) GUI: More menu item captions switched to new standard (WiP)
(129) GUI: Add ‘Launch processes elevated’ checkbox to Keep Running and Watchdog dialogs (an HKLM Lasso registry setting)
(129) GUI: Add ‘use any’ to name field of activation dialog
(131) Core/GUI: Add new INI setting for foreground boost priority class (default is 0x8000 for Above Normal)
(131) GUI: Move some menu items (Foreground boosting and Dynamic thread priority boosting)
(133) All: Copyright years to 2021
(133) GUI/LogViewer: In dark mode, make filter edit control backgrounds darker than parent to increase visibility
(133) GUI: Change watchdog ‘execute’ action caption to ‘launch a program’
(135) GUI: Move memory priority in process rule string to after CPU affinity for improved clarity
(137) GUI: Add general setting to write latest responsiveness measurement to registry (in HKLM\Software\ProcessLasso\LastResponsinenessMeasurement)
(137) GUI: More menu item work
(137) Languages: Updates to Chinese Simplified
(141) Languages: Updates to French and Russian
(145) Installer: Remove superfluous CANCEL button on installer message confirming download of correct edition (now YES/NO)
(145) Languages: Update PT-BR
(147) GUI: Cosmetic work to Keep Running config dialog
(149) GUI: Remove warning when process edit box is still populated on dialog close from several config dialogs
(151) GUI: Add log action text for ProBalance end due to termination and foreground
(151) GUI: Advise Keep Running not supported with GaaS on context or config menu, direct to info on switching to GaaP
(151) GUI: Allow Keep Running rules to be removed by context menu even if not Pro
(151) GUI: Cosmetic work to Memory Priorities dialog
(153) Languages: Update Polish
(155) Languages: Update Italian
(157) Core: Add log entry description for ProBalance begun evaluation event
(157) Updater: Terminate ThreadRacer if open
(159) GUI: Adjust persistent priority class dialog listview column header
(159) GUI: Improve default actions log sorting behavior
(161) Languages: Update Russian
(163) Languages: Fix a format specifier in watchdog actions that was incorrect in some languages
(163) GUI: Expand vertical size of CPU priority rules dialog
(163) GUI: In several dialog listviews, reserve space so when vertical scrollbar shown, horizontal isn’t also
(163) GUI: Fix GUI would stay in dark mode if Windows theme changed from dark to light while GUI not running
(164) LogViewer: One-time reset of column layout and sizes
(164) GUI/LogViewer: Expand default date/time column size
(164) GUI: Expand default PID column width throughout
(164) GUI: Force light mode for About dialog for better appearance


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