Microsoft Mouse program

Hi All, I have a question. i have a Sidewinder mouse and use the intellimouse program specific settings (where i can reconfigure my buttons). Unfortunately, whenever I start playing my game I have to stop open the mouse properites program and then close it out. This fixes the configuration problem and I play with no problem. Is there a way I can automatically open the program and minimize it to the tray (like previous versions). I created a batch file to open the mouse properties, but i manually have to close it. If there is no way to minimize it, is there a batch command that will close out the program? Below is the batch file I am currently using.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL MAIN.CPL

I have tried taskkill, but it doesn't seem to work.

 

Workaround might be this very nice mouse utility XMouse

Reconfigures mouse buttons.
Minimizes to system tray plus can set different profiles for indvidual programs.