Bill2’s Process Manager

Oh not, not another process manager. I hear you, really. But Bill2’s Process Manager is something special, at least I think it is. It is optimized for multi core systems and compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The first thing that you should do after installing the application is to switch the language in the options from French to English. That is, unless you are French of course. The English translation is well done, there is however no help file available in English and the homepage of the developer is completely in French, too.

The process manager displays a list of processes currently running on the system. By default hidden processes are hidden but they can easily be revealed in the interface. A right-click provides several possibilities to interact with the process. It is possible to open the program directory, perform a Google search, to set the priority of the process, look at its properties and create a rule for it.

The rules are basically permanent changes to the process. Everyone can set a process priority in the task manager but those priorities are reset when the process is killed. With rules users can make those changes permanent as long as the process manager is running in the background.

Even more interesting is the fact that you can set process priorities for visible and minimized applications and set a cpu core affinity and that each instance of the process should be distributed to different cores. Another interesting aspect are the special actions. Those can be defined if a process is started, ended or idle. Actions include to launch another application, to restart the process, to kill it or to show a tooltip.