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by tinus_hn 3006 days ago
Csrss.exe is the userspace part of the win32 personality. It controls all win32 processes, which on a Windows system is just about every process.

It is not very useful to limit its privileges.

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After the graphics driver moved out of it and into the kernel, it probably no longer needs the ability to turn off interrupts and read and write legacy IO ports.