Disabling Hyper-V "vmms.exe" keeps restarting

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Ever noticed vmms.exe keeps restarting?

WARNING: safely shutdown/stop any virtual machines you may have running first. To avoid data loss!

Not a problem, start PowerShell in Admin mode as we are going to change some stuff - keep in mind this will stop Hyper-V related activity which may be useful in the event of a compromised VM where you need to immediately remediate a particular couple set of hosts.

Code:
taskkill /f /im vmms*
Get-Service vmms | Stop-Service
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor

No more process..

This can also be a pain if working with onVUE and the Pearson LockDown Browser..

One last final measure to keep the pesky process down, Windows Key + R and "services.msc"

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Right click every running process mentioning Hyper-V / HV and click "Stop" on the service. There is a PowerShell way to do this, but just to be safe.
 
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