Error “Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator”

Many times while working on a PC which ash been infected by virus, Spyware or Trojans; one may get error stating “Task manager has been disabled by administrator”. Although this is not a very difficult problem to solve, this does provide some amount of irritation and wastes one’s time to some extent. While some get this error at some private or public PC, employees working in some company are also sure to get this warning, but in this case the error/warning should not be touched or fixed as in most companies company policies enforce such strict measures on employees’ computers.

All in all, you should worry about this error only when you get one on your personal PC. But what is this error and how to solve it? Keep reading until we get to the core of this error!

In simple words, you are sure to get this error when your computer’s policy has been changed and “disable task manager” restriction has been placed. This is what a virus or Trojan may do in order to prevent you ending unwanted processes.
There is couple of ways in which one can treat this error. But before trying out any of these methods, one should check it PC with updated anti-virus software. Let us now have look at both methods.

Method one:

1. In this method, you need to verify if any “Local group policy” or “Domain group policy” is preventing you from opening task manager!

2. Go to Start – click on Run – type “Gpedit.msc” and then press enter

3. Once you get new dialog box, go in the following submenus: User Configuration – Administrative templates – System – Ctrl+Alt+Delete options.

  

4. Make sure that at the right side of screen, remove task manager option is set to disabled; if not double click on it and change its setting to “not configured” or “disable”.

 

5. Close the group policy dialog box by clicking “Ok”.

6. This should probably solve your problem, if it doesn’t make use of second method.

Method two:

In this method, one needs to edit registry of computer manually (this mostly happens in the case of users using windows other than professional edition).
1. Go to Start – Run – Type regedit and hit enter.
2. Expand the sub-menus as give below: HKEY_CURRENT_USER – Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Policies – System.


3. Right click on the “DisableTaskManager” which can be found on the right side of the screen and delete it.


4. Once this done, you will get your task manager back!

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