I had thought that stopping the process first would result in it not being available as a listed process in Task Manager, but was surprised to see that it was still in there.
I still get the "access denied" message however.
(MS Windows 2000 online help isn't much help...)
I hear that. I don't want to spend $295 on a support call to Microsoft either.
Did the system start the task or is the task running under your account?
You can only modify the priority tasks running under your account.