One of the most annoying aspects of playing games on PC is having to go through and manually closing dozens of background running tasks you don’t want running when you're playing a game because they're sucking down memory and processing power.

Here's a simple way to close as many programs as you wish with just a double click.

First, download the Command Line Process Utility

Next, make a list of programs you want to close. These would be programs you do not want running in the background while playing a game like antivirus, chat software, etc. For this example I'm using Wordpad, Weather Bug and AVG Antivirus software.

Now while the programs you want to close are running start task manager and find the .exe for the programs in question. If you don't know which program goes to what just start ending tasks until the program you want closed exits and remember the name of the process you just ended. However do not close the following, they are part of windows:

Csrss.exe

Explorer.exe

Iexplorer.exe

Inetinfo.exe

Lsass.exe

Mdm.exe

Services.exe

Smss.exe

Svchost.exe

System

System Idle Process

Winlogon.exe

This is just a partial list of course, depending on your computer configuration. Now that you have the names of the executables that you want to close it's time to create our batch file.