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AdobeKiller - kill lingering processes
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| : Adobe has a tendency to leave a lot of processes running for no reason. Run this BAT file and it will take care of them. | |
| : Best to run as Administrator, because Adobe runs some of its processes as administrator. | |
| : This BAT is updated regularly, because Adobe regularly changes its process names. | |
| echo off | |
| title Adobe Killer | |
| echo You are about to terminate all Adobe processes and services. Please close all Adobe programs before proceeding. | |
| pause | |
| setlocal enabledelayedexpansion | |
| set MAX_ITERATIONS=20 | |
| set ITERATION=0 | |
| set KILL_SUCCESS=0 | |
| :loop | |
| set /a ITERATION+=1 | |
| echo Iteration !ITERATION! | |
| if !ITERATION! GTR !MAX_ITERATIONS! ( | |
| echo Reached maximum iteration limit of !MAX_ITERATIONS!. | |
| goto end | |
| ) | |
| set KILL_SUCCESS=0 | |
| for %%a in ( | |
| "AdobeUpdateService.exe" | |
| "Adobe Installer.exe" | |
| "Adobe Desktop Service.exe" | |
| "AdobeNotificationClient.exe" | |
| "AcrobatNotificationClient.exe" | |
| "Adobe CEF Helper.exe" | |
| "Adobe Crash Processor.exe" | |
| "Creative Cloud UI Helper.exe" | |
| "Creative Cloud Helper.exe" | |
| AdobeIPCBroker.exe | |
| CCLibrary.exe | |
| armsvc.exe | |
| AGMService.exe | |
| AdobeCollabSync.exe | |
| CCXProcess.exe | |
| CoreSync.exe | |
| "Adobe Crash Processor.exe" | |
| ) do ( | |
| taskkill /IM %%a /F >nul 2>&1 | |
| if !ERRORLEVEL! EQU 0 ( | |
| echo Killed process: %%a | |
| set KILL_SUCCESS=1 | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| echo Completed iteration !ITERATION! | |
| if !KILL_SUCCESS! EQU 1 ( | |
| echo Some processes were terminated, checking again... | |
| goto loop | |
| ) else ( | |
| echo No Adobe processes found running. Adobe Killer will now terminate. | |
| ) | |
| :end | |
| echo Finished. | |
| pause | |
| REM Please support me and my other creative projects on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gibgames |
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