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How do I close the ssh-agent.exe for Git?

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I want to uninstall Git. But when I try to I get this message:

The following applications use files that need to be removed. Please close them

ssh-agent.xe(PID 8112, closing is required)

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yay123 Avatar asked Jan 06 '16 15:01

yay123


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2 Answers

Just go to Task Manager and locate the process with the name which is mentioned and just select that process and click the End process button.

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Amna Haider Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 13:09

Amna Haider


In your case, you could call this from the command line:

taskkill /pid 8112

For further information, see the documentation on taskkill.

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Sean Morse Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 13:09

Sean Morse