What a tangle, this has proven to be a bridge-too-far for this newbie. I wish I hadn't started down this rabbit hole when a simpler solution would suffice for me. My torrents don't need to be active without interruption 24/7, it's fine if they chug away overnight but when I need to videoconference or access comcast xfinity web streams then I need VPN to be shut off as it completely chokes on those use cases.
Sure it would be nice to whitelist non-torrent activity, but I see in this years-long four page, intermittent success, Gen2 servers and everying else, that torrent-only VPN is far from being a newbie-friendly prospect.
Instead, a pair of batch files that shut down qBittorent and Eddie-UI when I need to videoconference would be good enough. It would save me some hassle and prevent me from inadvertently shutting off Eddie while leaving torrents active. The second batch file would restart Eddie and then qBittorrent once my videoconference or xfinity-stream is over. In fact, my shortcut to Zoom/Jitsi/Skype and to qBittorent could invoke the batch files every time.
That would be a user-centered design solution to achieves health without surgery! But I'm a newbie with batch files as well, so my question is this... will Network-Lock terminate along with Eddie if I'm using taskill /IM Eddie-UT.exe /T /F in my batch file? Should I taskill conhost.exe and openvpn.exe as well?