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 * 6 shouts * RSS * Email * Previous * Next 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.