I need to kill the AvastUI.exe process for testing purposes. Don't worry, I'm not ridding myself of Avast, I just need Avast to unload *completely* while I test something.
I go to services, and stop the Avast service. That part works.
When I try to kill the process from the task manager, it says access denied. Okay, so I elevate it and try again. Still access denied? How come? I'm a frickin administrator!
So I open up an elevated Process Explorer. Try to kill AvastUI.exe... Still access denied. Grmbl!
Next, I try the taskkill command.
taskkill /im AvastUI.exe
SUCCESS: Sent termination signal to the process "AvastUI.exe" with PID 3168.
But afterwards the process still runs.
How the heck to I kill this thing?