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Analyze Your PC With an AI Assistant

Process Lasso records which programs use your CPU and memory, what ProBalance restrained and when, and what your rules did. An AI assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot can read this record and explain it in plain language:

  • Which programs use the most CPU or memory, and whether that's normal
  • Which programs ProBalance restrains often, and what that suggests
  • Programs that may not need to run all the time
  • Programs whose name, publisher or location is worth checking
  • Process Lasso rules that could help

Process Lasso never sends this information anywhere. You choose what to give the AI assistant, and you can read all of it first.

Before You Start

Let Process Lasso run while you use your PC as usual, ideally for a day or more, so the log covers the things you care about. If you have a specific problem, such as stutter in a game or a noisy fan, make sure the log covers a time it happened.

Export for AI Analysis

  • Menu path: ‘Help / Export for AI Analysis’

Beta

Export for AI Analysis is only in the current Process Lasso beta versions for now, and arrives in the next final release.

Process Lasso builds a report and shows it in a window. The report starts with a prompt that tells the AI assistant what Process Lasso is, what to look for and what not to suggest, followed by:

  • Your PC's hardware and Windows version
  • Process Lasso's main settings, such as whether ProBalance and Performance Mode are on
  • CPU use, memory load and responsiveness over the last few minutes
  • The programs running now: their CPU use now and over the last few minutes (average and peak), their CPU time, memory and I/O, how often and how long ProBalance restrained them, their publisher and their location
  • GPU memory: how much dedicated and shared memory is in use on each GPU, and the GPU memory of each program (in a recording, the highest it reached). See GPU Memory
  • If process sampling is on: a summary of the last 24 hours of samples, per program
  • What starts with Windows: startup programs (from the Run keys, the Startup folders and scheduled tasks that run at logon or often), whether each is turned on, and auto-start services that aren't Microsoft's, with the memory and CPU of the ones running
  • A summary of the Process Lasso log: how often each action happened to each program, and the latest entries
  • Your rules, in the same JSON format as File > Export Rules

Your Windows user name and computer name are replaced with <user> and <computer>, and command lines are never included. Read the report, and edit or delete anything you don't want to share; then:

  1. Click Copy to Clipboard (or Save... to keep it as a text file).
  2. Open your AI assistant and paste the report.
  3. Write your question on the "My question" line near the top, and send it.

Record a Problem

If something goes wrong only at certain times, such as stutter in a game or a slow program, record it:

  1. Click Record a Problem....
  2. Make the problem happen: start the game, open the slow program, or do whatever causes it. You can minimize the window while you do.
  3. Come back and click Stop Recording.

The report then covers only the recorded time: CPU, memory and responsiveness during it, how much CPU time and I/O each program used, what ProBalance did, and the log entries written meanwhile. Describe the problem on the "My question" line. A recording stops by itself after about eight and a half minutes at the default refresh interval (it holds 510 refreshes), and it needs Process Lasso's display to update: in ‘Options / General / Refresh Interval (GUI)’, choose anything but Paused.

Earlier Versions: Give the AI Your Log

  1. In the log pane at the bottom of the main window, right-click and choose Open Log Folder. The log is the file processlasso.log, a CSV file you can open in Notepad or Excel.
  2. Read Privacy below, and remove anything you don't want to share.
  3. Open your AI assistant and attach the log file (or paste its contents).
  4. Optionally, add your rules: choose File > Export Rules, select the processes, and paste the copied rules into the same message.
  5. Paste the prompt below, add your own question at the end, and send it.
I use Process Lasso, a Windows program that monitors processes and adjusts them
automatically, with rules for priority classes, CPU affinities, CPU sets,
Efficiency Mode, power plans and more. Its ProBalance algorithm temporarily
lowers the priority of background processes that use too much CPU, so the PC
stays responsive. Attached is the Process Lasso log of my PC (a CSV file of the
actions it took and the processes it saw), and possibly my rules as JSON.

Please analyze it and tell me:
1. Which programs use the most CPU or memory, and whether that looks normal.
2. Which programs ProBalance restrains often, and what that suggests.
3. Programs that may not need to run all the time.
4. Programs whose name, publisher or location looks unusual and is worth checking.
5. Process Lasso rules or settings that could help.

Guidelines: Keep ProBalance enabled, since it is designed to run all the time;
if a program should not be restrained, suggest excluding it from ProBalance
instead. Don't suggest ending or disabling Windows system processes or security
software. A name or location alone doesn't prove a program is malicious, so
explain how to check it before removing anything. Ask me if you need more
information.

My question:

Privacy

The Process Lasso log contains your computer name and Windows user name on every line, and the full path of each program, which often includes your user name. If you turned on ‘Options / Log / Include Command Lines’, it also contains command lines, which can hold private information such as file names or web addresses.

Before you share the log, consider replacing your computer name and user name (Notepad's Edit > Replace works well), and remove any lines you don't want to share. Also check what your AI assistant does with what you send it: some services keep conversations or use them for training unless you turn that off in their settings.

Check Before You Act

AI assistants are often helpful, but they can be wrong, and they can sound sure when they're guessing.

  • Don't remove a program just because the AI called it suspicious. Check it first: right-click the program in Process Lasso and choose Locate > Locate on Disk, then look at the file's Properties > Digital Signatures, or upload it to a scanner such as VirusTotal.
  • Keep ProBalance on. If ProBalance restrains a program that should be left alone, exclude that program from ProBalance instead.
  • Be careful with Windows and security processes. Ending or disabling them can make Windows unstable or unsafe.
  • Change one thing at a time, so you can tell what helped and undo what didn't.

Use the Rules It Suggests

Ask the AI assistant to write the rules it suggests in the same JSON format that File > Export Rules produces. Copy its answer, then choose File > Import Rules: Process Lasso finds the rules on the clipboard and offers to import them.

Importing replaces a process's rules

Importing removes the existing rules of each process you import, then applies the imported ones. Make sure the AI's JSON lists every rule each process should have. See Rules Import and Export (JSON).