Killing a process ?

[sysMaker\(to be\)]

Good afternoon,
Why is it that Taskinfo (www.sysinternals.com) lets me kill the
printer spooler service process while TaskManager does not ?
tia

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Good afternoon,
Why is it that Taskinfo (www.sysinternals.com) lets me kill the
printer spooler service process while TaskManager does not ?
tia

I can't find it, so I can't help you.
Provide the exact URL.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Dennis van der Meer]

Probably because the print spooler service is a service which runs as
a system account. You can't kill services that run under this account.
If you are a domain admin or at least an admin on the machine you
should be able to kill the services that run under the administrator
account (or an other account except the system account). You can also
use pskill (part of pstools) to kill of any process (regardless of
system or not).

 

[sysMaker]

Probably because the print spooler service is a service which runs as

a system account. You can't kill services that run under this account.
If you are a domain admin or at least an admin on the machine you
should be able to kill the services that run under the administrator
account (or an other account except the system account). You can also
use pskill (part of pstools) to kill of any process (regardless of
system or not).

so why does Taskinfo do kill system processes, is it because it is like
pstools ?