When the CPU is pinned at 100%, one click gives it room.
A Windows tray switch for when agents, builds and local LLMs swamp your PC. It moves windowless background jobs onto fewer cores at lower priority. Nothing is stopped, and one more click restores them.
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ONBackground jobs run on 5 of 8 cores at BelowNormal priority, about 3/8 of the CPU stays free for what you are using. New jobs are picked up every 30 s.
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OFFEvery process it changed gets its original priority and cores back. Windows you can see, and anything Vector started, are never touched.
Illustration: text is the app's own strings; drawn in HTML.
CPU Eco ON
31 background processes limited to 5 of 8 cores. Nothing was stopped.
CPU Eco: ON | CPU 81% | RAM 68%