Disable Task Manager

Submitted by Srikanth on Saturday, 9 August 200812 Comments

The following registry hack enables us to disable the Task Manager. Here is a step by step procedure to disable Windows task manager.

Step1: Goto start>run and type “regedit” in the run.

Step2: In the registry navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Step 3: Make the changes according to the following data

Value Name: DisableTaskMgr
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = disable Task Manager)

Step 4: Then navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Step 5: Make the changes according to the following data

Value Name: DisableTaskMgr
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = disable Task Manager)

Step 6. In the Step 3 and 4, if the values are set to 1 then the Task Manager is disabled. Revert back to 0 in order to enable it back

WARNING: Please Backup your registry before attemting this hack. Changes to registry may lead to system failure.

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12 Comments »

?Anonymous? said:

Is there any way to get around this on a computer that also has the ability to run programs including the command prompt taken away?

- 27 August 2008 at 12:08 AM

Srikanth (author) said:

yes it’s possible! Even if the command prompt or run is disabled you can access the regedit.

Goto your windows directory (%windir%)and you will find regedit.exe file over there.Double click this and you will get the “registry editor”.Once you are in registry editor you can follow the above steps and proceed further…

- 27 August 2008 at 9:02 AM

Anonymous said:

hi i m pratham,actually i download a powered keylogger in last night.there is some problem(task manager bcm disabled)so can u help me?
mail me on pratham_patham2007@rediffmail.com

- 26 September 2008 at 10:38 PM

Anonymous said:

hiiii i m ayush… can u plz tell me hw to see locked scraps and pics..

- 6 October 2008 at 7:15 AM

boss said:

How to enable the task manager

I do not know how it got disabled !!!

- 14 February 2009 at 12:12 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ boss

This is because of virus. Perform a virus scan

- 14 February 2009 at 10:55 PM

Yogesh Pachauri said:

hello sir can i creat a executable file which can edit the registry
when it execute.
thank’s in advance..
i know u give me right solution.

- 19 February 2009 at 10:52 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Yogesh Pachauri

Yes it is possible to do it. Just using a simple C program….

- 19 February 2009 at 11:59 PM

Yogesh Pachauri said:

plz give me the source code Of simple registry edit program in c…please

- 21 February 2009 at 3:45 AM

DxM said:

hi srikanth! i thk the below code may help the readers to enable it through a bat file

ECHO REGEDIT4 > %WINDIR%\DXM.REG
echo. >> %WINDIR%\DXM.reg

echo [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] >> %WINDIR%\DXM.reg
echo “DisableTaskMgr”=dword:1 >> %WINDIR%\DXM.reg

echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] >> %WINDIR%\DXM.reg
echo “DisableTaskMgr”=dword:1 >> %WINDIR%\DXM.reg

start /w regedit /s %WINDIR%\DXM.reg

- 4 March 2009 at 10:57 PM

Sakura said:

Can we do the same thing with gpedit?

- 29 July 2009 at 7:31 PM

Bikalp karn said:

HI sir i dont find disable task manager .
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value Name: DisableTaskMgr
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = disable Task Manager)

in this address plz tell me.HOw to disable taskmanager

- 26 December 2009 at 1:23 AM