Chad, > This does sound like a bug in the Task Manager, > and maybe there are MINOR security implications > in the fact that the Task Manager tells the > administrator "This is a critical system process" > when it's not...but the fact that the system > administrator is trying to kill the process > seems to suggest that he already knows otherwise. I tend to disagree with you. When somebody mails a joke (e.g. VHold.exe) quite often the only way to kill such a process is by going into taskmanager. > I'm sure they could have told you that an administrator > can end system processes by right clicking on them and > choosing "Debug" and then ending the process. That feature is only available on systems with a debugger installed. Mine isn't > Not sure what happens when you have no just-in-time > debugger installed. No debug ability then. MZZL, Frank
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