Al said:
Both the regedit and the task manager have been disable by adware in
an attempt to keep me from terminating there pop-up ad. I fixed it
once but now I don't know how I did it and the searches I have done
come up empty including "knowledgebase".
Hi Al Ankers,
Clean your system of malware and other parasites using some free tools.
Adaware SE
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download
Spybot - search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Trend Micro's Housecall
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
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For Regedit.
Start > Run and type the following exactly between and without the
Quotes ("")
"REG DELETE
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v
DisableRegistryTools"
and/or
"REG DELETE
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v
DisableRegistryTools"
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For the Task Manager
For Windows XP Pro, use Group Policy Editor (Start > Run > gpedit.msc)
then navigate to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >
System > Ctrl+Alt+Del Options. Set "Remove Task Manager" as Not
Configured.
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For XP Home or Pro, use the Registry editor (Start > Run > regedit.exe)
Navigate to the following sub key:
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
and/or
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
Name: DisableTaskMgr
Type: DWORD
Value: 0 - Unrestricted; 1 - Restricted
Or in the right-hand pane, delete "DisableTaskMgr".
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An automated fix for XP Home or Pro,
Download and merge the following file from my site.
http://www.lprf.ca/files/tsk.mngr.dsbld.reg
Download "tsk.mngr.dsbld.reg" to your desktop. Right click
"tsk.mngr.dsbld.reg" to select Merge.
If you want to view the contents of the file, simply right-click
"tsk.mngr.dsbld.reg" to select Edit.
