Hi,
Recently, when I press "Ctrl-Alt-Del", the Task Manager button is unusable.
This problem seems to have started when an illegal program called "Windows
TaskAd" started running in the background.
Even though I have completely removed this program and all remnants of it (I
think) the problem still consists.
Anyone have an idea how I can fix this?

AriDint fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

> Hi,
> Recently, when I press "Ctrl-Alt-Del", the Task Manager button is
> unusable. This problem seems to have started when an illegal program
> called "Windows TaskAd" started running in the background.
> Even though I have completely removed this program and all remnants
> of it (I think) the problem still consists.
> Anyone have an idea how I can fix this?

I'd suspect you have not completely removed this spyware.

Have you tried spybot or similar

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html


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It's usually spyware/ junkware that sets this Reg_Dword decimal value to 1

Set it to 0

DisableTaskMgr
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"AriDint" wrote:
| Hi,
| Recently, when I press "Ctrl-Alt-Del", the Task Manager button is
unusable.
| This problem seems to have started when an illegal program called "Windows
| TaskAd" started running in the background.
| Even though I have completely removed this program and all remnants of it
(I
| think) the problem still consists.
| Anyone have an idea how I can fix this?
|
|

Hi Dave,
Even after setting to 0 (in 2 different places) I still cannot access the
task manager.
I have used all the spyware programs I know, including Microsoft
Antispyware, but nothing seems to help.
Do you have any more ideas ?

Ari

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> It's usually spyware/ junkware that sets this Reg_Dword decimal value to 1
>
> Set it to 0
>
> DisableTaskMgr
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect