gameMode

The intention of this project is to stop or start multiple processes with a single click.

When gaming, it is desireable to have as many computing resources available as possible; in other words, have as few other processes running aside from the game as possible.

This project will allow the user to create a list of programs which they want to run under non-gaming use scenerios, but not during gaming. When beginning a gaming session, the user can click a button to have all of the listed processes stopped. When the gaming session is complete, the user will again click the button, restarting the processes which were stopped.

Useful development links

wmic find file path of running process

• https://superuser.com/questions/768984/show-exe-file-path-of-running-processes-on-the-command-line-in-windows

taskkill kill processes from command line

• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491009.aspx
• http://tweaks.com/windows/39559/kill-processes-from-command-prompt/
• https://superuser.com/questions/727724/close-programs-from-the-command-line-windows

tasklist list running processes from command line

• https://commandwindows.com/tasklist.htm

running windows shell commands from python

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14894993/running-windows-shell-commands-with-python
• https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html