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How to stop Elements Agent’s services using Command prompt?
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Issue:
How to manually stop the Elements Endpoint Protection Agent's services using Command Prompt?
Resolution:
Here are the steps how you can stop Elements Agent's services on a Windows computer via the Command Prompt:
- Open a Command Prompt with administrator privileges
- Run commands:
- net stop fshoster (this stops the user interface and the automatic update agent)
- net stop fsulhoster (this stops the security features, such as real-time scanning, DeepGuard, Browsing Protection and the firewall profile)
- To start the service after stopping it, use the "net start" command
Note: to be able to stop the services of Elements Agent, you need to disable the tamper protection feature from the Elements profile.