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In Drupal 7, I could manually edit the {system} table in the database to disable a stubbon module. In my Drupal 8 site, this table is gone.

How can I manually disable a module in Drupal 8?

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I recommend not to do that. If you really want, you can move the relevant line from sites/default/files/config_*/active/system.module.yml into system.module.disabled.yml, but there's a good chance things might break. It was not a good in Drupal 7 either because you missed the hooks firing when modules are disabled.

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Did you mean hook_disable() and hook_enable() ? – Mołot May 15 at 8:20
I do it as a last resort when a module has things locked up where you can't use Admin on a staging or development install. – bumpaw May 15 at 11:12
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Consider using Drush. Drupal 8 is still defining what "disabling modules" should be. There is an ongoing discussion if there should be that option or it should be removed.

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I'm developing locally on a windows PC and last time I looked Drush wasn't ready for Drupal 8. I'll have to look again. – bumpaw May 15 at 11:06

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