task manager....cannot end some processes.

[maverick964uk]

I'm not windows 2000 expert but I know my way round fairly well.

Anyway, I am using a backup product but having some problems with it at present. Apart from being able to kill processes via task manager, some of them belong to the username "SYSTEM" and when I try to end these processes it says I dont have permission....access denied.

how can I get round this and kill these processes.

The username is not administrator, however it does have admin rights.

Many thanks
Mike

 

[brontosaurus]

depends on what you're trying to kill...many system based processes are vital to the operation of W2K and can't be killed. however, there are instances when a process is still "in use" and can't be killed until the child is stopped. in this case, you can try a tool called Process Explorer to find out what objects are tying up the process you want to kill.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Go to sysinterals web site, and download Process Explorer. It's a free download that allows you to monitor your processes and what process is calling what other process. We had problems here and services.exe were hogging 90+ percent of the cpu. After downloading this tool, we were able to confirm that services.exe was trying to start a software package the engineers used. I killed the engineeriing process, contacted the vendor, and after they sent us the new SP's, problem solved. Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
glen@johnsoncomputers.us



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