Forever to Wake Up

[Difficult_Man]

I ran the Fix scan & rebooted, log attached.

Kill.bat did not work from the Start menu nor from the .exe in the Tools folder, even when the only app open was Notepad.

[Malnutrition]

Now I see the issue, Not sure why this slipped my mind before. I was wandering what was going on!

Something simple like I said!

I apologize for that.

These command are not working to due to spaces in your user name, which means I should have enclosed the command in “” marks any time there are spaces in a name or service or anything of that manner when running in command prompt the console will stop at the first space and assume that is the full command you are intending to send.

[COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]Here is the new [COLOR=rgb(247, 218, 100)]kill.bat[COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)] content below, replace the current text inside with this.

@echo off
IF EXIST "C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\Documents\tools\KillEmAll.exe" (
"C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\Documents\tools\KillEmAll.exe" /auto
) ELSE (
"C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\Documents\tools\KillEmAll.exe" /auto
)

IF EXIST "C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\Documents\tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe" (
"C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\Documents\tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe" /O
) ELSE (
"C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\Documents\tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe" /O
)

exit

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Also here is new fixlist.txt which covers that issue.
Run this as you have before.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

[Difficult_Man]

Replaced fixlist code, ran FRST fix, then rebooted.
Opened 3 programs in addition to Chrome (Notepad, Excel, Acrobat).
Ran Kill from Start menu, a black window flashed briefly but, unfortunately, no programs were closed.
Ran Kill as Admin from the Desktop .exe and nothing at all happened.
I appear to have a very stubborn computer.

[Malnutrition]

You will need to delete the shortcut, as it contains the old commands. FRST fix worked properly.

Open tools delete that shortcut

Then delete the one in start menu

Then create a new shortcut in the tools folder as before.

Send that to the start menu, as before

[Difficult_Man]

You will need to delete the shortcut, as it contains the old commands. FRST fix worked properly.

Open tools delete that shortcut

Then delete the one in start menu

Then create a new shortcut in the tools folder as before.

Send that to the start menu, as before

Kill.bat Shortcut deleted and replaced.
I tried it from Start with and nothing happened.
I ran as Admin from Tools and nothing happened. :unsure:

[Malnutrition]

Delete all Kill.bat the you have, You also need to delete from the start menu as well. All of them.

Then I will need the exact paths for:

[COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]KillemAll.exe & [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]ReduceMemory_x64.exe

To do this:

Download this tool.
Install.
Go to Documents then tools .
Right click each of those in the tools folder and get me the full path.
Mouse Hover over Copy Paths in the right click menu
Left click Copy Full paths.
Post each path here.
I know this works, and I know what the issue was, it should be resolved with the new commands but I want to be sure..

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What happens when you run Killemall by it’s self?

This is really all it could be, but…

New [COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]Kill.bat [ICODE] @echo off "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\tools\KillEmAll. exe" /auto "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\tools\ReduceMemo ry_x64.exe" /O "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\tools\KillEmAll.exe" /auto "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\tools\ReduceMemory_x64.ex e" /O exit [/ICODE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

[Difficult_Man]

Download this tool.
Install.

Nothing happened when I clicked the link. Neither could I open the link in a new tab. Clicking ‘Downloads’ in Chrome settings confirmed that nothing downloaded (two attempts).

Before replying I looked at Properties of both programs.
The visible path for each program is
C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools (which you probably already know).

BTW, I have no idea why everything is under the OneDrive\CPM. I did a 6-week internship in 2018 with CPM and they hooked me up to their OneDrive system; my computer has wanted me to login to OneDrive ever since! Could this be why it’s so hard to remove?

In the Properties window I saw this msg: “This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer.” There was an unchecked checkbox next to it labeled ‘Unblock’. I unblocked it and got the file path C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ki1 25121.inf_amd64_26ca8ba649abc040
It also opened the window where it was located and I found 3 files called ki125121: Security Catalog, Setup Information, PNF file.

I ran KillEmAll.exe again. It worked and gave me a longer file path: “c:\windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\ki 125121.inf_amd64_26ca8ba649abc040\igfxcuiservice.e xe”
I gave the CLOSE command and everything but Chrome closed.
It generated the attached log in the Tools folder.

[Difficult_Man]

I did not do the above for ReduceMemory_x64

[Malnutrition]

Hmm… Well that would explain why the commands do not work.

So as I said before delete all Kill.bat and all shortcuts to Kill.bat including those on the start menu.

Here is your new kill.bat place this in the same folder, with Kill em All and ReduceMemory
@echo off
“%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\tools\KillEmAll. exe” /auto
“%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\tools\ReduceMemo ry_x64.exe” /O
“%USERPROFILE%\Documents\tools\KillEmAll.exe” /auto
“%USERPROFILE%\Documents\tools\ReduceMemory_x64.ex e” /O
“C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\KillEmAll.exe” /auto
“C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe” /O
exit

[COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]I would have never guessed Documents would be CPM, and that tools is inside a new folder in the CPM folder…so there is the issue, I hope.

Here also is the download page for the tool.

https://www.rentanadviser.com/products/copy-as-path/copy-as-path.aspx

And I attached the installer in case you are unable to download it.
Also attaching rename.bat to kill Searchapp.exe[/COLOR]

[Difficult_Man]

Thanks for attaching the setup.zip as I was unable to download from the website. What do I do with it: Run or Run as Admin?
Same question for rename.zip

[Difficult_Man]

I ran it as administrator; installed.

[Malnutrition]

As for rename.zip unzip to desktop right click run as admin.

You can add the new kill.bat, but if that doesn’t work…

Look at post 127 get me the file path, I need to know for 100 percent sure.

[Difficult_Man]

You can add the new kill.bat, but if that doesn’t work…

Add to what? Start list? I replaced the code.

Look at post 127 get me the file path, I need to know for 100 percent sure.

C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\KillEmAll.exe
C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe

I ran rename as admin, nothing observable happened.

[Malnutrition]

Add to what? Start list? I replaced the code.

If you added the new kill.bat to the[COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)] C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools folder, then create a new shortcut for [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]kill.bat and add to start menu, now that we have the correct command all should work as intended. The correct paths are there.

This is all you really need.
@echo off
“C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\KillEmAll.exe” /auto
“C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe” /o
exit

But leave this one if you wish., as it contains the correct path, and will cover if you remove one drive.
@echo off
“%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\tools\KillEmAll. exe” /auto
“%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\tools\ReduceMemo ry_x64.exe” /O
“%USERPROFILE%\Documents\tools\KillEmAll.exe” /auto
“%USERPROFILE%\Documents\tools\ReduceMemory_x64.ex e” /O
“C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\KillEmAll.exe” /auto
“C:\Users\Bruce Kleinberg\OneDrive\CPM\New Folder\Tools\ReduceMemory_x64.exe” /O
exit

I ran rename as admin, nothing observable happened.

That’s fine, it should have flashed for a second, it only renamed a file.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[Difficult_Man]

Kill shortcut added to Start.

I don’t understand what te rest of te post is for. Where am I to post these codes?

Also, since I ran rename many of my keys are not consistently working, particularly H, ', and Backspace. Coincidence?