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Well, this situation might never arise when you need to Disable your Task manager. But more commonly it happens because of a virus attack. Viruses do disable the Task Manager. Now they do so by editing the Registry values. Even if you remove the viruses, the registry changes will remain and thy will continue to effect your system, until you correct them. This is easy and I will let you know how this can be done with just a small change in Registry. Here’s what you need to do.
This is a very simple method by which Task manager can be Enabled/ Disabled. Apart from that, if you are in a network, and want to disable Task manager for a user, then you need to change the Computer Policies.
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Cool. I never knew that we could actually disable the Task Manager with a simple registry hack.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice tip buddy .
Ah! that’s pretty handy, but I personally prefer Process explorer, much better than task manager and no need to worry about viruses disabling it
@ Haris : Yes, this is a very easy one, and a useful one as well.
@ Reviewsaurus : Task manager is the easiest and most popular tool that is infected in this manner, so any AV you have, a little coding trick can disable your Task manager.
Some Cyber Cafe’s employee this trick and disable Task Manager. Is there a way to bring it back without touching the registry? Or is there a portable Task manager?