Can I temporarily disable a system process?(MacOs Ventura)

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Can I temporarily disable a system process?(MacOs Ventura)

I need to use safe exam browser and this program basically wants you to quit all other applications besides it so you can't cheat on your exam. The problem is that it wants me to quit parsecd witch is a system process related to "Spotlight, Messages, Lookup & Safari Suggestions use your location to provide more accurate local results" as indicated by the info.plist file. Is there any way to temporary kill the process so I can use the application?( I mean if I manually kill the process it just come backs every time so its pointless).

Also never had this problem before, I tried installing back the program multiple times.

Posted on Aug 28, 2023 3:14 AM

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Answer 1

lkrupp

Level 6

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Aug 28, 2023 5:18 AM in response to Realedo

You need to speak with the organization who is administering the exam and ask them to confirm their app is compatible with macOS.

And as you have discovered you cannot temporarily disable that process as it is critical to the operation of macOS.

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Answer 2

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P. Phillips

Level 10

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Aug 28, 2023 6:39 AM in response to Realedo

Would suggest follow previous suggest - First.

From the little experience in macOS , MS Windows and a dabbling in Linux

To achieve what your are attempting to achieve( at their request ) would pretty well Exclude most Operations System let alone macOS

https://safeexambrowser.org/about_overview_en.html#:~:text=Safe%20Exam%20Browser%20is%20a,being%20used%20during%20an%20exam.

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