Dennis Sarsozo

Respondus LockDown Browser Does Not Like Virtual Desktop

Date: 02/08/2021

If you’re in college in 2020-2021, you probably had to use Respondus LockDown for one of your online classes. Usually, Respondus does a good job of notifying you when it doesn’t like a program, then closes it for you.

Not for Virtual Desktop, though. It will notify you, but simply leave it running, making you close it yourself.

Extremely annoying when you have to finish a quiz in… 3 minutes 🤡

Solution? Use a BAT Script

Manually, you had to search for VirtualDesktop.Streamer.exe and VirtualDesktop.Service.exe via Task Manager, then close them. Since we love automation, I made a BAT script to automate closing Virtual Desktop!

Steps to Create the Script

1. Open Notepad.

2. Paste the following commands into Notepad:

   1taskkill /F /IM VirtualDesktop.Streamer.exe
   2taskkill /F /IM VirtualDesktop.Service.exe

3. Go to File > Save As.

4. Save the script as StopVirtualDesktopScript.bat.

   Ensure that you Save as type: All Files.

5. Go to where you saved it, then run it as administrator!