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How to enable or disable task manager in Windows 7


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The task manager is very powerful tool for troubleshooting and monitoring in Windows 7. The task manager can be either enabled or disabled using group policy. This article explains how to enable or disable the task manager in windows 7.


How to enable or disable task manager in Windows 7


The task manager is very powerful tool for troubleshooting and monitoring in Windows 7. The task manager can be either enabled or disabled using group policy. Let us see how the task manager can be enabled or disabled in Windows 7.

The task manager in Windows 7 can be enabled or disabled through registry settings.

Disabling task manager in Windows 7

  • First you should click the "Start" button, and type "regedit" in the search box.
  • Now you will see the Registry Editor window opens up. Go to the following registry key as shown in the following screen shot.
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
  • Screen shot of Registry editor in Windows 7

  • Now create a new 32-bit DWORD value as shown below in the screen shot.
  • Screen shot of creating a new 32-bit DWORD value in Windows 7 Registry

  • Name the 32 bit DWORD as 'DisableTaskMgr' as shown in the screen shot below
  • Screen shot of creating a new 32-bit DWORD value in Windows 7 Registry

  • Double click on the new DWORD 'DisableTaskMgr' and set its value to 1 as shown below.
  • Screen shot of changing the DWORD value in Windows 7 Registry

    The change takes place immediately and you cannot use the task manager any more in Windows 7.

    Enabling task manager in Windows 7

    To enable the task manager, you just need to double click on 'DisableTaskMgr' and change its value to 0.


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    Responses to "How to enable or disable task manager in Windows 7"
    Author: Darshan    14 Jul 2010Member Level: Silver   Points : 2
    Thanks Raghav,

    for providing us such a wonderful information. I neve think of disabling and enabling task manager before this.

    I have just heard about enabling/disabling task bar not this. I will definitely do this.

    I also have a querry that why we need to do so i mean, why we have enable/disable the task manager.

    Please tell me about this if you know.



    Author: D.Jeya Kumar(JK)    14 Jul 2010Member Level: Diamond   Points : 2
    Hi,

    In a public network like browsing center may be people will come and work in system some may like to kill some processes or they can check the services for all the users and he might kill the processes. From task manager if multiple users are working then they can logoff the users.

    You can prevent such activates by disabling the task manager will be helpful



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