If you’re sick of seeing your CPU grind away at 100%, howling fans, laggy browsing and overall unresponsiveness thanks to HKO, then this might be good news for you:

This nifty little program is called BES. You can get it here: http://mion.faireal.net/BES/

What it basically does is limit how much CPU usage a single program can grab. As you can see in the screenshot above, I set HKO to 50%. It still runs fine now, but by how much you can limit it depends on your hardware of course.

Using the program is very straightforward. Extract the .zip file and run the BES.exe. Click the Target button and pick HKO.exe from the list. Click Limit this. If you want to catch HKO every time you run BES, click Limit/Watch instead.

After selecting HKO.exe you can use the options under Control… to adjust the CPU usage. (If you doubleclick anywhere on the background you can load your own image.)

That’s all. Enjoy your freed CPU cycles!

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