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Allow users to view all processes

I want to allow accounts with only user permissions on a Windows Server 2003 machine to be able to view all processes. I simply want them to be able to open task manager and be able to check the box that says "Show processes from all users". How…
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How is Task Manager showing a DLL as running process?

I've been working with windows for almost 20 years, but I have never seen something like this. On a Windows 10 Machine, there is a .dll listed as separate process in task manager. It has Network connectivity, handles and everything that usually only…
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Is CPU usage measured by Process Explorer and Task manager a running average?

My application generates a short peek of high CPU usage. When the CPU intensive task is done, I see a dropping CPU usage in Task Manager and Process Explorer for a few seconds (it forms a triangle). I'm wondering if that CPU usage is a running…
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scheduled task not running

i have a problem, created a scheduled task, to run a bat file. it's programmed to run with administrator credential, works in other tasks. the file is a normal bat file. the code inside the file is the following: @ECHO OFF REM …
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When stopping a service, what's the difference between “Services.msc” and “Task Manager”?

When I tried to stop a service with "Task Manager > Services" on Windows 7, it failed saying "Access Denied". But when I tried with "Services.msc", it succeeded. I used the name user. Why could "Services.msc" succeed when "Task Manager" fails?…
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Taskbar add-in on Windows XP - which process?

I'm putting together a package to deploy across multiple desktops, and I am trying to find out what process is calling a little taskbar add-in that attaches itself under Windows XP (Think language toolbar, or Windows Media Player under Vista). This…
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Deleting user profiles using Delprof2 and Windows Task Manager

I'm having problems with using Windows Task Manager and Delprof2 utility to delete user profiles. I setup a task in Windows Task Manager to execute Delprof2.exe with /q parameter at each system start (reboot) to delete all profiles. This setup works…
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Windows Updates based restart - bypassing

I have a powershell script that is working at Night in office PC - (wiht out admin privileges)- the problem is at night time Updates are getting pushed and system is restarting and script wont start since I do not have batch execution or other…
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Failed Tasks on Windows 2008 R2 and Event Viewer

I'm trying to run a script on Windows 2008 R2 via a Task item in the Task Scheduler. It is not running. I can't figure out why. I'm looking in the event viewer and not seeing anything. Shouldn't there be some kind of error code or something? Where…
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task manager performance tab

I am trying to have task manager open on the Performance tab on startup on Windows 8, 8.1, and 2012 machines. I have gotten the task manager to open, but it always does so on the Processes tab and not the Performance tab. Can someone please help…
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check_nrpe -c CheckProcState USING PID

I'm currently running a SOLR search engine from a batch file and it appears as a process in my servers taskmgr. I need to monitor its state using check_nrpe but since there are more than one cmd.exe processes, I need to identify it using the PID of…
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Commit charge peak higher than system limit

We are seeing some very strange behaviour on our servers and google didn't turn up anything usefull, so I'm tossing it out here. A standard server is configured with 4GB Ram, 2 4GB pagefiles and running windows server 2003. The servers are running…
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How to schedule batch file to run on the desktop in win 2008 R2

I have some backup batch file scripts which I was running in xp and I have migrated to windoes server 2008 R2 where it's not running in front when scheduled with task manager. I struggled a lot to make it run at the scheduled time with task manager…
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WinServer 2003: Cant find process holding onto ports

We have a couple of production WCF services failing to start because their ports are apparently in use by another process. I have done a netstat -ano and found the PID's that are using these ports, which are all in the LISTEN state. The ports for…
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What is Last Run Result (0x80042000)?

No matter what I do, my task exits with "Last Run Result" 0x80042000. It claims to pass successfully, but it's not doing anything -- the process appears for an instant and then disappears. If I do Start/Run and type in the exact same command, then…
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