A Javascript Program to Disable and Enable Task Manager
Posted by absnet on 22 February 2010
Here’s a simple program to Activated or deActivated your task manager. The philosophy to activate or deactivated task manager is simple, you just write change registry value in “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableTaskMgr” by 0 or 1.
- 1 mean Yes, you disable task manager
- 0 mean, No, enable task manager.
The program below use javascript and windows scripting to write the value into registry. To implement this program, here’s how:
1. Open Notepad
2. Disable wordwrap option in notepad
3. Copy paste listing program below.
4. Choose Save As, Name it as tsk_mgr.js, with save file type as : All Files
5. Save in C:\ or any folder you like
// Compact Program to Access Task Manager
// Program name: tsk_mgr.jsfunction preambule(messages)
{
natan.popup(messages,0,"Task Manager Guard");
}
function Write_It(myValue)
{
natan.RegWrite("HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion"+
"\\Policies\\System\\DisableTaskMgr",myValue,"REG_DWORD");
}
var vbYesNoCancel = 3, vbYes = 6, vbNo = 7, myValue, messages, MyQuestion, natan;
natan = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
messages = "Choose a Menu :\n\n"+
"Click [Yes] to Non-activate Task Manager.\n"+
"Click [No] to activate Task Manager.\n"+
"Click [Cancel] to quit.\n\n"+
"[+] absnet.wordpress.com [+]\n\n"+
"Non-activating Task Manager now?";
MyQuestion = natan.popup(messages,0,"Task Manager Guard",vbYesNoCancel);
if (MyQuestion == vbYes)
{
myValue=1;
messages="Task Manager De-activated!";
Write_It(myValue);
preambule(messages);
}
else if (MyQuestion == vbNo)
{
myValue=0;
messages="Task Manager Activated!";
Write_It(myValue);
preambule(messages);
}
else
{
messages="Thank you for using this program.";
preambule(messages);
}
To run this program, right click the program and choose Open With – Microsoft Windows Based Script Host.
Output of this program is as pictured below
Just Choose Yes, No, or Cancel
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