Starting and stopping the application

Manually starting and stopping the application

Kaspersky experts recommend against manually stopping Kaspersky Endpoint Security because doing so exposes the computer and your personal data to threats. If necessary, you can pause computer protection for as long as you need to, without stopping the application.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security needs to be started manually if you have previously disabled automatic startup of the application.

To start the application manually,

In the Start menu, select Applications ® Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows.

To stop the application manually:

Right-click to bring up the context menu of the application icon that is in the taskbar notification area.
In the context menu, select Exit.

Starting and stopping the application from the command line

To stop the application from the command line, the Disable external management of system services check box must be cleared.

You can start or stop the application from the command line.

The file klpsm.exe, which is included in the Kaspersky Endpoint Security distribution kit, is used to start or stop the application from the command line.

To start the application:

Run the command line interpreter (cmd.exe) as an administrator.
Go to the folder where the Kaspersky Endpoint Security executable file is located.
In the command line, type klpsm.exe start_avp_service.

To stop the application:

Run the command line interpreter (cmd.exe) as an administrator.
Go to the folder where the Kaspersky Endpoint Security executable file is located.

In the command line, type klpsm.exe stop_avp_service.

In this Help section

Automatic startup of the application

Pausing and resuming computer protection and control

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