If for some reason you might find yourself in the situation that you need an elegant method of stopping a bunch of windows services automagically you can always turn for help to the friendly and almighty Windows PowerShell…
# Get a list of Windows services with a specific filter criteria
$services = Get-Service |
Where-Object {$_.displayname -like "BloatedWithUselessServicesAntivirusName*"}
# Iterate through the bastard list of memory consuming services
if ($service -ne $null)
{
foreach ($service in $services)
{
# Get the service name
echo $service.name
# Kill it with a passion or ...
Stop-Service -Name $service.name
# Start it with hatred
#Start-Service -Name $service.name
}
}
else
{
echo "You are in luck, you don't have crappy av installed"
}
PS: in case your working environments security policy is constipated administer the following pill in a ps ISE with admin rights:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned