Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator

[mthood]

I'm sure it's related to a virus or spamware I got recently. But my Task
manager became disabled with the error message ever since I removed the
virus/spamware manually. I searched internet for fixes, and followed all
methods to reset the Windows registry value to 0 for this attribute or just
remove the attribute:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableTaskMgr.

Nothing worked, and the registry value always revert back to 1. In safe
mode, it didn't revert back to 1, and I got my Task Manager enabled
afterward. However, once I reboot in normal mode, it reverted back to 1
again. For instance, I run
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v
DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

The command returns with a "successfully completed message". Then I run

REG query HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

The DisableTaskMgr attribute will again have a value of 1.

Any assistance will be highly appreciated.

 

[PaulM]

Try running this script here:
http://www.paulsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=137&p=211#p211

 

[mthood]

Thanks for the response. It didn't work though.

Try running this script here:
http://www.paulsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=137&p=211#p211

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[PaulM]

You must have some nasty spyware on your computer. The reason it disables
the task manager is because that way you can not stop the spyware from
running by killing the process. You have to find the spyware some how. Have
you run HiJackThis?

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[mthood]

Hey JijackThis rocks. After I used it to do a thorough cleanup, your utility
worked and I got back my task manager.

Thank you so much!

 

[PaulM]

You are Welcome.

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