Shoutbox

Hey guys,

I'm looking for a way to stop/start several programs simultaneously.

I have a relatively low-spec PC at the moment, and when using resource-intensive programs (games, photoshop etc), it helps if I'm running the least amount of sundry programs as possible. To do this at the moment, I have to spend a few minutes closing programs, killing processes etc, and then when I'm done, I have to restart everything again.

Does anyone know of a quick, efficient way to do this? (When I was first thinking of it I was thinking a .exe or two, but I have no idea of the capabilities of such things. Googling has yielded very little, as I think my problem is a little too specific, and my knowledge is very limited, but I have been proven wrong before.)

Any help would be appreciated.

What do you mean by restart everything again?
Like you restart your computer?

probably the easiest way is to run a batch file to start/end processes

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Originally posted by Toxn
What do you mean by restart everything again?
Like you restart your computer?

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No I mean, when I'm finished using memory intensive programs (games, photoshop etc) and want to resume using normal programs, I need a way to get all of those running again.(I hope that's a little easier to understand for you)

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Originally posted by MeEtc
probably the easiest way is to run a batch file to start/end processes

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Okay thanks I'll look into it, I may be back with questions on how to write those properly but I'll do my best to write it myself.

On Windows XP Professional (not sure about which editions of Vista/7 this works on) you can use taskkill.exe to terminate a process. You can also use net stop to stop services and net start to start them (on any edition of Windows).

Also, take a look at this: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html
It stops services/terminates processes that you probably don't need while gaming.

To run programs i always use this batch file:

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@echo off
start "Title" "C:\File_path\filename.exe"
start "Title" "C:\File_path\filename2.exe"

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Originally posted by Mike
On Windows XP Professional (not sure about which editions of Vista/7 this works on) you can use taskkill.exe to terminate a process. You can also use net stop to stop services and net start to start them (on any edition of Windows).

Also, take a look at this: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html
It stops services/terminates processes that you probably don't need while gaming.

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Thanks Mike, I'm using XP so I'll take a look at those commands and see where I get.

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Originally posted by tony
To run programs i always use this batch file:

code:

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@echo off
start "Title" "C:\File_path\filename.exe"
start "Title" "C:\File_path\filename2.exe"

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Okay thanks tony, any idea how I could do the opposite? As in kill those processes?

code:

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@echo off
TASKKILL /F /IM "notepad.exe"

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