Task manager is a powerful Windows tool for managing system services, processes,

monitoring system activity and starting or closing applications. It is basicall

y extended version of run box and it comes very handy to operate within Windows
system. That s way many system administrators prefer to disable task manager on pu
blic computers to restrict access to major critical system resources which could
lead to system compromise.Here we will show you how to modify registry to disab
le and re-enable Windows task manager.
Goto start and click on run(Win+r) and type in regedit and find this input
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.

Enable or disable Windows Task Manager

Written on May 13th, 2009 by pcterritory
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Task manager is a powerful Windows tool for managing system services, processes,
monitoring system activity and starting or closing applications. It is basicall
y extended version of run box and it comes very handy to operate within Windows
system. That s way many system administrators prefer to disable task manager on pu
blic computers to restrict access to major critical system resources which could
lead to system compromise.Here we will show you how to modify registry to disab
le and re-enable Windows task manager.
disable-task-manager
Goto start and click on run(Win+r) and type in regedit and find this input
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.
If you do not see System folder under Policies you can create it by right mouse cl
ick on Policies > Key > and name it System. Than point your mouse pointer to an
empty area, right click it and choose create new DWORD (32 bit) value. Name it D
isableTaskMgr and press enter. Than double click it and set Hexadecimal value to
1. Press enter and reboot computer. After than task manager will be disabled on
your machine and inaccessible. If you later decide to enable task manager again
, navigate once against to dword 32 value we just created and simply delete it o
r change value to 0. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

If there s no key called System right click Policies navigate to New -> Key in the rig
ht click menu and type System to create a new key.(skip this step if you have the
key) To disable task manager right click the empty area in the right side pane a
nd create a key with the following settings New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value and type Di
sableTaskMgr and press Enter.(without the quotes) Right click on DisableTaskMgr and
click Modify , type 1 and press ok(see screen caps for more info) to enable task m
anager simply navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
right click DisableTaskMgr click delete and click yes for confirmation.