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A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ http://www.windows-internals.com
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Feature Request: Pin process to top #1369

Open mooleshacat opened 2 years ago

mooleshacat commented 2 years ago

I was wondering if we could add a feature to pin a process to the top of the list regardless of sort options. This way you can sort the list, but still have specific processes pinned to the top.

For example, I play a game called Satisfactory, I would like to pin the process to the top so I can keep an eye on it while I am playing because I am troubleshooting lag/stuttering issues. Turns out it something to do with IO usage.

It would be much easier to diagnose if I could pin specific processes and keep an eye on them.

It would also be cool if we could re-arrange the pinned processes by drag and drop.

I hope this is a feature we will see in a upcoming release!

SanderBouwhuis commented 2 years ago

Oh wow, that is a tremendous idea! I'm often struggling with sorting because I want to keep an eye on a few processes (for instance, from applications I'm developing.) I now have to use the 'trick' to name them aaaaaaaMyApp1.exe and aaaaaaMyApp2.exe and so forth to keep them in view.

Also, please remember them between restarts.

KyleKolander commented 1 year ago

Love this idea! Maybe it could be a top-level parent virtual/logical process named Custom or Pinned, similar to how System Idle Process, winlogon.exe and explorer.exe have nested processes. It could work similar to Quick access in File Explorer - drag & drop to rearrange, and right click context menu Pin to Quick access. That would be super helpful as I usually only want to keep an eye on a few processes at a time, depending on what I'm doing.

Cris-- commented 1 year ago

Great enhancement if it would implemented!