Control app priorities from the menubar

Jan 24, '02 09:25:13AM

Contributed by: robg

La Chose Interactive has released (to macosxhints' readers first!) a freeware application known as ProcessWizard. ProcessWizard is a menubar widget that, when clicked, opens a list of your running applications along with a priority slider for each one. Want to give an application more priority (ie more CPU time)? Move the slider to the right. Reduce the priority? Move the slider to the left. Need to force-quit an application? Control-click on the icon. All done? Click anywhere else and the menu vanishes.

I've had this installed for a few hours with no ill effects, and the background daemon takes basically zero CPU cycles. If it gives you any trouble, you just need to either log out or use ProcessViewer (in Utilities) or the Terminal to kill the daemon and the menubar widget.

If you downloaded this earlier this morning, please re-download to resolve a possible conflict with ASM.

This is a very handy little application, and thanks to dperetti (Dominique Peretti) for releasing it here first!

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