title: How to terminate adb.exe on windows? What keeps restarting it?
body: <p>I am trying to terminate adb.exe on my Windows machine. I am using <code>taskkill /F /IM adb.exe /T</code> to do this. However each time I do it, 3 adb.exe instances come back into the task manager process view. Something is restarting them.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to do some connection-between-virtual-machine stuff and I need adb.exe to die and stay dead on the Windows host, because it is interfering. </p>
  
  <p>How do I identify what is restarting these processes? Or otherwise make adb.exe stay dead without doing extreme stuff like temporarily deleting it from the Windows host?</p>
  
  <p>Extra notes:
  When I run the taskkill, a process group called "Service Host: DCOM Server Process Launcher" jumps to the top of the process list at 20% cpu, so maybe it's what is responsible.</p>
  
  <p>No, adb kill-server etc is no more effective.</p>