CloseAppsOnBattery

Automatically closes power-hungry apps when your laptop switches to battery power — helping extend your battery life.

⚙️ How It Works

When you unplug your laptop, apps like Discord or Nvidia Broadcast may continue running in the background, draining your battery. This tool sets up a Task Scheduler trigger to automatically close such apps when switching to battery mode.

📥 Installation Guide

1. Download the files.zip from Releases

2. Extract the ZIP archive to any folder

3. Open search, type Task Scheduler, and open it

4. On the right-hand panel, click “Import Task…” Then select CloseAppsOnBattery.xml from the folder you extracted.

   

5. In the imported task, go to the Actions tab → Select the listed action → Click Edit

   

6. In the Start in (optional) field, paste the file directory path where you extracted the ZIP files

   

🛑 Apps Currently Closed by Default

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🧠 Productivity / Communication

• Spotify
• Microsoft Teams
• Zoom
• OneDrive
• Discord

🎮 Gaming / Game Launchers

• Steam
• Epic Games Launcher
• EA Applications
• NVIDIA Broadcast
• Riot Client Services

Note

More apps will be added in future updates!

➕ Want to Add More Apps?

You can easily customize the script.

1. Right-click CloseAppsOnBattery.bat → Open with Notepad
2. Under the existing taskkill entries, add a new line in the format:

taskkill /IM NAMEOFAPP.exe /F

For example, to close Chrome:

taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F

Caution

Make sure you use the exact process name of the app (.exe), or it won’t work.