stopping kernel service

Hi,

For testing purposes, I'd like to be able to stop the kernel service ekrn.exe. (I'm a paying customer before anyone jumps).

I thought that the self-defense option was there for this purpose, i.e. turn it off and then be able to easily stop or kill the service. I don't get the "access denied message" after disabling self-defense, but killing/stopping ekrn.exe still restarts it.

I know of two working methods

- disable self-defense, put the service on manual or disable, reboot
- disable self-defense, rename ekrn.exe, kill ekrn.exe

I want to avoid rebooting so I'm using the 2nd method in a script ... is there a "cleaner" method of stopping the service (e.g. hidden command line options)?

Cheers,

p.s. on-topic answers highly appreciated

 

Actually there are ways to do that with SD disabled, but we won't publish them as they could be easily misused by malware writers.

 

I think I already mentioned (some of) them in my post above ...

However, if you do not wish to publish any such methods then what is the point of having a "Disable SD" option accessible to the user? (other than allowing the more knowledgeable users figure out a method by themselves)