Kill a program to continue installation

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Dear Team ,

i’ve a scenario where VLC won’t install to computer because our antivirus is causing some issues , the installation continues if i end task the process “regsvr32.exe” . in VLC this is the line that prevent the installation :
Execute: regsvr32.exe /s “C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll”

this regsvr32.exe is located in :C:\Windows\SysWOW64

i just wanted to know if there is any worakaround i can do from bigfix to kill this process if it is run

thank you

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you can use below to kill the task.

    if {exists names whose (it starts with "regsvr32") of processes}
    waithidden taskkill.exe /IM "regsvr32.exe" /T /F
    endif

OR

if {exists running application "regsvr32.exe"}
waithidden taskkill.exe /f /im regsvr32.exe
endif
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So that’s in the 32-bit system folder.

Have you tried disabling 64 to 32 bit redirection?

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thank you , the issue is that i’m deploying the app through a waithidden command line , that line will not complete as this process “regsvr32.exe” kicks in when executing the command i’m wondering howi can let BigFix just kill that process /app while the previous command is still running

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yes , but the issue is i want to kill the process that kicks in while installing a program , not sure how to chieve this

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Just odd that it kicks off the 32 bit regsvr32.

On a phone now, so I can’t check, but should there be a /s or similar to run regsvr32 silently ( i.e. is it putting up a hidden confirmation dialog)?

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I’m not certain this is the correct approach, and you should check with your antivirus vendor. Interrupting VLC’s codec installation may leave VLC unusable or even corrupt other codec installations.

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