Re: Stop Explorer.exe

Yes but it says in Task Manager that the process (Explorer.exe) was started
by Administrator... And I already done that with XP and it worked well.

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> If the process was started by a service you probably don't have authority to
> stop it. It was probably started with system account privileges.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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>
> "Martin" wrote:
> | Hello everyone!
> |
> | I was using Task Manager yesterday to stop explorer.exe from the Processes
> | tab and I received an Access Denied error. I tried to stop another service
> (a
> | service related to my Backup Drive), and I received the same error (But I
> was
> | able to stop it via Services.msc). I was logged on locally with the admin
> | account on the server.
> |
> | Is Windows 2000 Server behave normally or can it be a problem with the
> Admin
> | account?
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Martin
> |
>
>
>
.

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