Overview

What is Frob?

lets you tune the foreground and background time-slice threading under Windows NT.

In depth

A closer look at Frob

One of the most annoying characteristics of NT is its lack of support for tuning various system performance settings such as the foreground and background process quanta (a quantum is the time-slice, or length of time a thread will run without being pulled off the CPU for another thread to run). On NT Server, the quanta are fixed for both foreground and background processes at 120ms, and on NT Workstation a background process has a quantum of 20ms, and a foreground process has a quantum of either 20, 40, or 60ms.

This little command-line utility lets you "frob" the quanta to your liking. The new quanta will immediately be applied to every process in the system and will also affect new processes that are created.

Verdict

Should you download Frob?

Frob runs on Windows NT/2000/Windows 10/11 and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 19 KB. We’ve catalogued it under System.

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Frob specifications

Category: System
Publisher: Systems Internals
Last updated: Feb 3, 2025
License: Freeware
Operating system: Windows NT/2000/Windows 10/11
File size: 19 KB
Price: Free
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