Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time.

There are a lot of plugins avalaible, that can install useful apps in this boot cd.

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RATING: EXCELLENT

Process Lasso automatically restrains running processes that are consuming too many CPU cycles. Often, processes that are 'out-of-control' can bring an NT system to a near halt. Once one or more processes have become CPU resource hogs, termination of the offending process(es) is very difficult since it is nearly impossible to even open the task manager. With Process Lasso, these processes are temporarily reduced in priority so that the system is returned to a responsive level.

 Process Lasso can work when multiple processes are responsible for a decrease in system responsiveness.

Process Lasso acts when the total usage of all CPUs exceeds a configured threshold. When this threshold is exceeded, processes that exceed another configured threshold for a set amount of time are temporarily lowered in priority. Processes that currently have the focus can be boosted in priority.

A very good app, especially for users that use a lot of cpu (encoding, raytracing, etc.), since with Process Lasso multitasking works better by far.

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RATING: VERY GOOD

Wizards and predefined profiles (in the shareware version) make it suitable for novices and yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for the experienced user. Cacheman XP is even better with Windows XP.

A good app, but you should not wait miracles.

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RATING: GOOD