Enable or Disable Task Manager through Regedit and Gpedit.

Sometimes we might face the popup message displaying as "Task Manager is disabled by administrator" when we try to open task manager. Here is the solution for the above scenario through regedit and gpedit.msc.

Registry Editor:

1. Open regedit in administrator mode.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

3. If the value DisableTaskMgr is present modify its value to 0 to enable Task manager.

4. If the value is not present create a DWORD and name is as value in the step 3.

5. Inorder to disable task manager modify the value to 1.

Gpedit:

1. Open gpedit.msc.

2. Go through the path User Configuration\Administrative templates\System\Ctrl+Alt+Del Options

3. On the right side extended view select "Remove Task Manager", perform right click and choose edit.

4. The default value will be Not Configured.

5. To enable the task manager click Disable.

6. To disable the task manager click enable.