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I have a few programs I would like to shutdown before I start gaming.

I managed to make a batch file for it, but 1 program doesn't isn't terminated.

The first two processes do shutdown, but for some reason Zonealarm doesn't. I also disabled the "Protect client" option in Zonealarm, but still, the process keeps on running.

TASKKILL /F /IM "Msseces.exe"
TASKKILL /F /IM "MsMpEng.exe"
TASKKILL /F /IM "zlclient.exe"  < this one doesn't shutdown
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Chris
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Unfortunately, I have had similar results as you. I've found that taskkill doesn't always work. You might have better luck with Sysinternal's pskill. Sysinternals is free and a lot of people swear by it.

churnd
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The process is protected by a driver/kernel hook. There's no easy way to kill the ZoneAlarm main process... And you shouldn't want to kill it either...

Pylsa
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