Task manager has been disabled by your administrator?

Question

If some programe hangs and if i want to close it immediately i press control+alt+delete.But the task manager is not coming,Instead a message like Task manager has been disabled by your administrator appears......so please help.

Answer 1

Security is always a trade off of convenience. There are reasons for security however and in a work setting, its not your computer, its your employer's computer - even if you get to pick the desktop background image.

Disabling the task manager is a sensible security policy, but it comes at a cost - IE you not being able to shut a program down immediately.

Another issue is data integrity. Perhaps killing a database update query that is hanging would corrupt the data. Preventing you from using task manager might be to make it more difficult for the administrators to be unaware - if you have a problem, they have to be made aware of it for you to continue working - they can take steps to address other issues that aren't occurring on your machine specifically as opposed to being unaware while a problem escalates through the system.

Its a way of forcing you to keep them in the loop - something that generally, users won't do if they have a choice. Don't get defensive when I say that - its not meant as an attack and is in fact the truth.

Two simple examples of why it might not be to your liking, it very well may be for good reason.

Solution - go find out why task manager is disabled rather than just trying to work around it. Make your administrators aware of the problem - they can't do their job to find a solution (which might not be allowing task manager) if they don't know about the problem. Inform them of your goal (to be able to close hung programs quickly) rather than asking them for your proposed solution (getting task manager permission)

- or, failing that -

Talk to your manager and explain that the problem is costing productivity and that since time equals money, lost productivity means it costs the business money. Nothing gets management to listen up more than problems that cost money or proposals for saving money.

Answer 2

in the experience that your no longer the administrator, then that is common because perhaps the administrator disables that. in the experience that your the administrator, then their is a difficulty. i'm advantageous it is reason through a perilous disease because it also takes position to me. you may do appropriate right here: a million. acquire and deploy an antivirus software (I favor to you Kaspersky coz' it particularly is the only i have downloaded and it truly works). 2. test you're computing gadget, no want to reboot and bypass to threat-free mood yet when the virus also prevents you to open it, then reboot and bypass to "threat-free Mode with Networking", replace and test your computing gadget. note: as far as you may, stay remote from freeware antiviruses rather AVG loose.

Answer 3

It could be a virus disabling it. Check out this site on ways to disable it. http://www.wareprise.com/2006/12/21/how-to-delete-virus-that-disables-task-manager-regedit-from-launching/

Answer 4

Is this a work computer? Then you shoudn't be able to access Task Manager.
Are you a user with someone else's computer? Then you shouldn't have access.

There is no way around it.

Answer 5

1.Click the "START" button & click "RUN".
2.Type in "regedit" in the run box & click ok.
3.In the registry editor, open the path My computer/HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/policies & on right side, please check if any value which says disable task manager. if found, delete the value, exit out of registry editor.

Answer 6

You should be able to only if you are logged in as ADMIN or have the same privileges as ADMIN.