Windows Task Manager does not work

[Guest]

After a reboot, trying to access Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) results in
message "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator." That's me,
I'm my own administrator on Windows XP Home.

How can my administrator re-enable Task Manager? Asking him to do so has
proven ineffective.

What's known:

1. Using regedit to look at the registry key
hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\system

Here's what I see:

Name: Type: Data:
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
DisableRegistryTools REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)
Disable TaskMgr REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)

What DWORD is needed to be inserted? How do I insert it?

2. When I try to run gpedit.msc I get an error message that the file can't
be found. I searched for gpedit.msc and the file doesn't exist on the
computer. The computer has 4 profiles.

3.I have been getting frequent WinMgmt errors in EventViewer -- Application
-- Error # 28, which says WinMgmt can't initialize core parts. These error
messages have been occuring for a week or two before Task Manager quit
working. Are these two connected?

What to do?

 

[Rich Barry]

I think the values for both should be 0. rt click on each select modify
and enter 0 for data value.
Have you checked for Malware. If not, use all of these free sites


http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html?source=appvisit





http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/





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





http://housecall.trendmicro.com/



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[Guest]

I think the values for both should be 0. rt click on each select modify
and enter 0 for data value.

Thanks for replying. I'm having trouble doing this. I right-click on
either REG_WORD or (invalid DWORD value) and a window appears with a single
word "new ==>" Clicking on new gives a menu with items Key, String, Binary,
DWORD, Multi-string, expandable string value. Selecting DWORD and typing 0
results in this:

Name: Type: Data:
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
DisableRegistryTools REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)
Disable TaskMgr REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)
0 REG_DWORD 0x00000000(0)

I am expecting to see the invalid DWORD value be replaced with 0. What am I
doing wrong?

Also, I have the Lavasoft and the Spybot software installed. I will run
these as soon as my virus scanner finishes scanning.

 

[Rich Barry]

rt click on the Name Disable Reg Tools and DisableTaskMgr NOT under
Type Reg_Dword,

 

[WTC]

After a reboot, trying to access Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE)
results in
message "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator."
That's me,
I'm my own administrator on Windows XP Home.

How can my administrator re-enable Task Manager? Asking him to do so
has
proven ineffective.

What's known:

1. Using regedit to look at the registry key
hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\system

Here's what I see:

Name: Type: Data:
(Default) REG_SZ (value not
set)
DisableRegistryTools REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)
Disable TaskMgr REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)

What DWORD is needed to be inserted? How do I insert it?

2. When I try to run gpedit.msc I get an error message that the file
can't
be found. I searched for gpedit.msc and the file doesn't exist on the
computer. The computer has 4 profiles.

3.I have been getting frequent WinMgmt errors in EventViewer --
Application
-- Error # 28, which says WinMgmt can't initialize core parts. These
error
messages have been occuring for a week or two before Task Manager quit
working. Are these two connected?

What to do?

Hi,

gpedit is not available in XP Home

Scan your system for malware and other parasites. Here are some free
programs.

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/

Once your system is cleaned and free of parasites, open the registry
(Start>Run and type regedit).

Navigate to the following sub key:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
In the right-hand pane, locate "DisableTaskMgr" (REG_DWORD) and delete
"DisableTaskMgr" or modify the value to 0.
In the right-hand pane, locate "DisableRegistryTools" (REG_DWORD) and
delete "DisableRegistryTools" or modify the value to 0.

And Navigate to this following sub key: (The values may not be present
here)
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
In the right-hand pane, locate "DisableTaskMgr" (REG_DWORD) and delete
"DisableTaskMgr" or modify the value to 0.
In the right-hand pane, locate "DisableRegistryTools" (REG_DWORD) and
delete "DisableRegistryTools" or modify the value to 0.