Hey I am making a batch file that helps people like me with crap pc's to get more cpu power out by stopping all processes except those that are truly vital. I have wriitne enough to stop all the servives and a "start" line to run a vbs script that frees up ram but i havent managed to stop processes running in the background like hp printer processes and that such. I need them running while i am working but games are a different story so stoppijng them starting up is out of the story. I know that the command taskkill used to do the job but it doesnt seem to do it any more. All the help will be appreciated.