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WinKillSwitch v0.3.9: CPU and memory limits

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@Ege-BULUT Ege-BULUT released this 08 Nov 22:20
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v0.3.9
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Limits

Keep a heavy program from taking over your PC, without closing it.

  • Open a process's Details and choose Set limits.
  • Processor: 50%, 25% or 10% of your processor for the whole program, all its processes together. It runs slower, never breaks.
  • Memory: 4 GB, 2 GB, 1 GB or 512 MB of RAM per process. Windows moves the rest to disk instead of refusing memory, so the program keeps running.
  • Limits are remembered by program name and come back every time it starts. Settings > Limits lists them; remove one and the program is free immediately.
  • Windows' own processes cannot be limited.

Tested on a real machine: a busy process went from 8.3% to 2.4% of the processor under a 2% cap, and a process holding 481 MB dropped to 127 MB under a 128 MB ceiling while it kept running.

Download

WinKillSwitch.exe is portable: download and run.

01e955e1396fae8e99eb380e17204ca0d8e7d9875af1e4bce18a55131c6d7195  WinKillSwitch.exe

Agents installing this for a user: follow agent_setup_guide.md.

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