Download PC Repair Tool to quickly find & fix Windows errors automatically At times, you may find that you are not able to kill a particular process using the Windows Task Manager, and when
you try to do so, you receive a message – Unable to terminate process, The operation could not be completed, Access is denied. If you receive such a message, here are a few options you may want to try. Before you proceed, restart your computer and see if you are now able to kill the process. If you cannot, then try the following suggestions. 1] Using TaskkillFrom the WinX Menu, open Command Prompt (Admin). In the CMD window, run the following command: taskkill /IM "processname" /T /F
2] Using WMICFrom the WinX Menu, open Command Prompt (Admin). In the CMD window, execute the following command: wmic process where name='processname.exe' delete Here replace processname.exe with the name of the process which you can find from the Details tab of the Task Manager. 3] Using PowerShellOpen an elevated PowerShell prompt and execute the following command: kill -id pid Here pid is the Process ID number of the process to be terminated. To get this number, you can open the Details tab of the Task Manager and see the number against the process you want to kill.  You can also run the following command in the PowerShell prompt that you have opened to get the process ID number. Get-Process For instance, 5364 is the PID for DimScreen.exe which is the process that I have chosen to terminate. So to kill this process, I use: kill -id 5364 Hope this helps! Read next: How to kill a Not Responding process in Windows. Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware. Hi, Yes, my u1 is a standard domain user without domain administrator privileges. Does the issue occurs on all processes? Could the domain admin kill processes like notepad, calculate of the standard users? Please use domain admin account to locally log onto the server and then run command prompt as administrator. If this still does not work, you can run "gpresult /h gpresult.htm" to export the group policy and check if any security policy was set to limit the domain account's permission. Or if no special policy, you might need to capture some dumps or traces to further investigate the issue, which I suggest to contact Microsoft Customer Support and Services where more in-depth investigation can be done so that you would get a more satisfying explanation and solution to this issue. You may find phone number for your region accordingly from the link below: Thanks, If the Answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it. Thanks. |
