Process Tamer Alternatives

Process Tamer is described as 'tiny utility that monitors the CPU usage of running processes and automatically lowers the priority of processes that are overloading the CPU until their CPU usage returns to a reasonable level' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to Process Tamer for Windows and Linux. The best Process Tamer alternative is Process Lasso, which is free. Other great apps like Process Tamer are AnVir Task Manager, Battle Encoder Shirase, Mz CPU Accelerator and FCorp Image Hijacker.

Process Tamer alternatives are mainly Process Management Tools but may also be Process Monitoring Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Process Tamer.

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Process Tamer

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Process Lasso
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Freemium • Proprietary
Process Management Tool
Process Monitoring Tool
Windows
32 Process Lasso alternatives
Process Lasso is NOT yet another task manager. It is a process priority optimization and system automation utility. Priority optimization, affinity optimization, core optimization, automated rules, automated power schemes, you name it and Process Lasso has it.
- - Process Lasso is the most popular Windows alternative to Process Tamer.
- - Process Lasso is the most popular free alternative to Process Tamer.
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1. PortableProcess Lasso can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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AnVir Task Manager
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
39 AnVir Task Manager alternatives
This tool controls programs, disk, CPU. Replace task manager, tweak and tune up XP or Vista. Speed up windows startup. Get rid of spyware and viruses.
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1. PortableAnVir Task Manager can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hardware Monitoring
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Be careful! The downloader of AnVir Task Manager can install malwares! To avoid the InstallManager read the post at http://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/12033/how-to-avoid-the-installmanager/
Battle Encoder Shirase
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Free • Open Source
Windows
2 Battle Encoder Shirase alternatives
BES is GPL free software that controls per-process CPU usage: an “active” software CPU cooler. It throttles CPU-hungry application(s) when asked.
- - Battle Encoder Shirase is the most popular Open Source alternative to Process Tamer.
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Limit cpu usage
Mz CPU Accelerator
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
7 Mz CPU Accelerator alternatives
Mz CPU Accelerator is an application that automatically changes the priority of the foreground window, by allocating more CPU power to the currently active application (program-game). It automatically de-allocates CPU priority when a new active application is used.
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Discontinued
The last update was on December 19th, 2010. The installer is no longer available on the official site, but can be downloaded from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20100929185730/http://mztweak.com/download/mzcpu.exe
FCorp Image Hijacker
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
13 FCorp Image Hijacker alternatives
Image Hijacker is a small and easy to use application that allows you to run a program via another one to hide it from prying eyes.
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1. PortableFCorp Image Hijacker can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Discontinued
Development of FCorp Software has been discontinued in 2016. Last version of Image Hijacker, released in April 2016, can be still downloaded from SoftPedia.
cpulimit
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Free • Open Source
Linux
13 cpulimit alternatives
CPU Usage Limiter for Linux - cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu.
- - cpulimit is the most popular Linux alternative to Process Tamer.
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CPUBalance Pro
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
7 CPUBalance Pro alternatives
CPUBalance is real-time CPU optimization software containing Process Lasso’s famous ProBalance algorithm. This demonstrable technology helps to retain system responsiveness during high CPU loads. Even if you have the perfectly tuned PC and well-behaved applications, our...
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Sits in the System Tray
Ananicy
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Free • Open Source
Linux
14 Ananicy alternatives
Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications (anyone may add their own rule via github's pull request mechanism). It's mainly for desktop usage.
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