Frank said:
When I press Ctrl Alt Delete
I get a message comes up. "Task manager has been disabled by your
administrator".
I have Administrator rights, and I do not know what i did for this
to happen. How can I changeit to now work?
Thanks
"Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator" error message
Author: Yuval Sinay MVP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555480
"Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator" error
Author: Soumitra Sengupta MVP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555546
Error Message: "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator"
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm
Task Manager Has Been Disabled, How to Fix It?
http://www.pchell.com/support/taskmanagerdisabled.shtml
Make sure the machine malware/virus free by running a thorough scan.
Go through these Cleaning steps:
1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete
cookies by doing this:
Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing
Option: [&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this
box. Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable
all non Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one
and see the culprit and update it or remove it.
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm
SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
RootkitRevealer v1.71
By Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/RootkitRevealer.mspx
HTH,
nass