Kill a process which says "Access denied"

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Mar 15, 20261040670 views

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I have a process that I can't kill with either Task Manager or Process Explorer - I get the error "Access denied". The process isn't a Windows executable. How can I kill it? Is there some tool I could use to override this protection? I'm using Windows 7, 64-bit edition.

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Kill a protected process? http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/index.php Works on Windows Server without admin rights! Yammie! :)

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Kill a process which says "Access denied"

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