i am running the uninstall command where the command have to be run but still showing error PS C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent> .\elastic-agent.exe uninstall Error: can only be uninstalled by executing the installed Elastic Agent at: C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\elastic-agent.exe For help, please …

thanks for responding @carly.richmond yes i was running as administrator only still the same error was showing up so i decided to delete all the files of the elastic agent in the program files but there was this Elastic Agent and fleet server processes that was continously running in the backgroun…

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carly.richmond (Carly Richmond) February 14, 2024, 10:28am 2

Hi @Karan37,

Are you running the install command as administrator as per the documentation?

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