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How to stop Elements Agent’s services using Command prompt?

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:

  1. Open a Command Prompt with administrator privileges
  2. Run commands:
    1. net stop fshoster (this stops the user interface and the automatic update agent)
    2. net stop fsulhoster (this stops the security features, such as real-time scanning, DeepGuard, Browsing Protection and the firewall profile)
  3. 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.