Dec 09, '02 09:26:18AM • Contributed by: robg
The macosxhints Rating:
[0 to 10 lights; 10 = perfect!]
- Developer: La Chose Interactive [Product Page]
- Price: Free!
ProcessWizard puts an icon in your menu bar that, when clicked, opens a window showing all of your running applications and their current 'nice' values. You can also switch the display to show background apps, other user processes, and non-user (system) processes such as cron, etc. Next to each icon and item name is a slider; move it to the right to increase the priority level of any item; move it left to decrease the priority level. You can authenticate each time you do this, or click the unlock icon to allow changes without re-entering a password. You can even kill any process by control-clicking on its name or icon.
ProcessWizard isn't perfect; it'd be nice if it remembered your settings for each application, and if it had a "default" button to quickly return an app to a normal setting. Still, it's hard to beat its functionality for $0, and I found a couple of interesting things just by looking at some of the background tasks (for example, my Wacom tablet driver is 'niced' well above normal by default).
