Killing a process

I ran into a little problem concerning a certain game protection process on
my Vista Home Basic notebook.

I'd like to kill the process, but it gives me an "access denied" in
taskmanager. The process doesnt run under a "name" Whereas normal processes
run under my username or "administrator" thisone runs under nothing.

Tried it with CMD as well, taskkill /im process.exe <-- "Could not be
terminated, access denied"

The reason i want to kill it is pretty simple, I'd like to be able to surf
and chat when I'm gaming, and this protection system slows it down (it kinda
scans everything). Killing it works on XP, but vista...

Thanks for your input!

There is probably some dependency running also, you need to find what that
is first before you can kill it. There is a possibility also there might be
a Service that you need to stop first.
--
Andre
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"vertigo" <> wrote in message
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>
> I ran into a little problem concerning a certain game protection process
> on
> my Vista Home Basic notebook.
>
> I'd like to kill the process, but it gives me an "access denied" in
> taskmanager. The process doesnt run under a "name" Whereas normal
> processes
> run under my username or "administrator" thisone runs under nothing.
>
> Tried it with CMD as well, taskkill /im process.exe <-- "Could not be
> terminated, access denied"
>
> The reason i want to kill it is pretty simple, I'd like to be able to surf
> and chat when I'm gaming, and this protection system slows it down (it
> kinda
> scans everything). Killing it works on XP, but vista...
>
> Thanks for your input!

"vertigo" <> wrote in message
news:F6AA43DA-10D6-4F9F-BBA9-...
>
> I ran into a little problem concerning a certain game protection process
> on
> my Vista Home Basic notebook.
>
> I'd like to kill the process, but it gives me an "access denied" in
> taskmanager. The process doesnt run under a "name" Whereas normal
> processes
> run under my username or "administrator" thisone runs under nothing.
>
> Tried it with CMD as well, taskkill /im process.exe <-- "Could not be
> terminated, access denied"
>
> The reason i want to kill it is pretty simple, I'd like to be able to surf
> and chat when I'm gaming, and this protection system slows it down (it
> kinda
> scans everything). Killing it works on XP, but vista...
>
> Thanks for your input!


Make sure you are in elevated mode in Task Manager (Click on Show processes
from all users). Right click on the process and pick End process tree.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/