Task manager, killing processes, access denied

[Evan]

When in the task manager, I see about 30-40 processes
running at any given time. However, if I try to use "End
Process," over half of them will be "Access Denied." I
want to be able to end any process, so how do I remove
this "Access Denied" on all processes. Thank you.

Evan
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Matt]

"Access Denied" is probably because they are part of
Windows. If you close some of them, Windows may restart,
or some programs may stop working.

Why do you want to end any process?

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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When in the task manager, I see about 30-40 processes
running at any given time. However, if I try to use "End
Process," over half of them will be "Access Denied." I
want to be able to end any process, so how do I remove
this "Access Denied" on all processes. Thank you.

Access Denied can be because they're system critical services, however
certain other services also give this message.

If you use kill.exe from the resource kit it will allow you to kill a
process from the task list by using its PID number.

such as from a cmd prompt

kill -f 292

would "force" a kill of process 292