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A 20-year-old simple stupid tool since 2004Battle-tested Easy Solution (or whatever)
$ winget install --id mion.BES.Stable --exact --version 1.7.10Run in Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. Prompts for any agreements.
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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. BES has also helped various gamers as a handy "anti-freeze" agent, though that is not the original purpose of BES.
| Architecture | Type | Scope | Install | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x86 | ZIP archive | - | Direct |
Copy a command tailored to that specific architecture, type, and scope - useful when winget would otherwise pick a different default.
No known CVEs for Battle Encoder Shirasé.
Coverage is best-effort and depends on a winget package mapping to an NVD CPE entry. Absence here is not a guarantee of safety.