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BES is a small tool that throttles the CPU usage of the process you "target": for instance, you can limit the CPU usage of a process which would use CPU 100%, down to 50% (or any percentage you'd like).
With this, you can use other programs comfortably while doing something CPU-intensive in the background.
By limiting the CPU load, you can also cool down your CPU immediately when it happens to get too hot. It's an "active" software CPU cooler.
Conventional soft-coolers save CPU energy by making CPU sleep when it is idle. They passively wait until CPU gets idle. BES is more aggressive: it cools CPU by making the "heating" process slow down, i.e. periodically forcing CPU to be idle for a short time. (But you should install a better hardware cooler if you often need to use BES for this purpose.
Active soft-cooling might be an interesting hack, but it's just a workaround after all.
On the other hand, if your application uses CPU 100% meaninglessly, let BES do the job!
Furthermore, BES can hide a window you don't want to be seen for some reason, without killing the process, and restore the hidden windows again anytime you like.
When starting BES it will always sit hidden in the task bar. To display the BES graphical user interface, right click the icon in the task bar and choose the 'Restore BES' menu point.
The description in this manual page covers only a reduced
set of all possibilities of the
BES
command.
For a description of the full functionality, see:
http://mion.faireal.net/BES/.
Parts of the documentation has been extracted from http://mion.faireal.net/BES/.
See also: http://mion.faireal.net/BES/ for more information.
This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.