How to Enable and Disable the Task Manager

As a part of the administrative task enabling and disabling the task manager is essential as per their own organizations policy the action prevents the end users from opening Task Manager (Taskmgr.exe). If the setting is in action and the user is trying to access the Task Manger, a message appears explaining that a policy prevents the action.

Let’s see how to disable and enable the task manager by group policy editor and registry combination. The portion is so expedient when the Task manager is accidentally disabled.

[Method: 1] Group Policy Editor

• Click on Run -->; gpedit.msc

• The Group policy Windows opens, in the Local Computer Policy, Choose the User configuration -->Administrative Templates --> ;System -->Ctrl +Alt+ Del Options  on the right pane click on the Remove Task manger setting as shown in the following fig,

•              The Following dialog opens, From this  you can enable or Disable the task manager,

Enable – Task Manager removed from your sys.

Disable – Enabling task manager.

•             Similarly you can able to easily remove the Lock Computer, Change Password, and Logoff from the system from Ctrl +Alt+ Del Options.

[Method: 2] Registry Edit

Another Way of enable/disable can be done by editing the registry using regedit Command, Navigate to the following structures and make the following changes,

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Name: DisableTaskMgr
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1= Disable’s the task manager
Value: 0= Enables the task Manger

Note: Requires Administrator rights to do the task.