Windows 10: No rights to open task manager.

Hello, I have a problem that has appeared in only the last week. Before that, I was running windows 11 fine but now, several issues have appeared despite me not changing anything. The main issue is that when I try to open task manager through the task bar, it gives me an error: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe The requested operation requires elevation."When I try to open task manager through CTRL + ALT + DELETE, nothing happens, not even an error. The only way to open task manager is to type it in the search bar and open it through there. And even through this method, it asks you whether th

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No restart button in task manager

another easy way to kill tasks, download and install Winaero Tweaker(free) and theres a setting to add a Kill non responding tasks using the desktop right click menu. When you place your cursor on the desktop anywhere and right click the option is at the top of the list, Very handy and you dont have to go through all those steps and well Winaero Tweaker has alot of cool Windows tweaks. Just posting a different suggestion, Im sure your ok with what was suggested here.

 

Task Manager - Startup tab

Actually, I like your suggestion as a first step.

Unchecking the wrong thing in Autoruns can brick a system.

 

Scroll issues in Task Manager, Windows 10

steps to reproduce the problem

1. open task manager
2. click on more details if its not
3. go to performance tab
4. decrease its height till it has two scrolls for the two sections
5. hover over the right section (CPU, Memory, …) and try to scroll

what is expected to happen

the right section to scroll

what went wrong

the left section is scrolling instead

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