task manager disappears - help needed

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help needed - cannot open Task Manager. Even when going
through the "start" then "run" taskmgr.exe, the task
manager opens for a split second then disappears. I was
told by Lexmark that I had too many Tasks open and had to
close them so that I could print Internet sites or
emails. Right now, I cannot print either. And if I
can't get to Task Manager, I can't quit the tasks...any
advice on how to fix? I'm running Windows XP and Office
2003 on my home computer.
 
Common symptoms of several viruses. Do a virus scan with updated and current
anti-virus software.
 
I've seen this problem posted more than once so decided to
invesigate it myself. A few people had same symptoms but
different solutions.

Here is a forum were they are finding a file
called 'WUAUMQR.EXE' in the windows/system32/

http://forums.techguy.org/t153432/s.html

Check out the link above and read over it to see if you
have this file or another one causing your issue.
 
Normally I would probably agree, but everyone that I've
seen having this issue, some had a virus on top of another
problem. I would explore both avenues, if virus scan up
to date and you scan to find nothing, check my other post
on this subject.
 
I am having same problem. Did you find a solution?

email: (e-mail address removed)
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pacstee
 
 
I had this same problem and updated Norton AntiVirus. It detected W32.spybot.worm on file Windows/System32.WINCFG.SCR. Norton couldn't repair it, but after Quarantined, the problem went away
I am not able to repair this Quarantined file, so I don't know what to do next.
Hope this helps
Pa
P.S. Thanks Kelly
 
Pat said:
I had this same problem and updated Norton AntiVirus. It detected
W32.spybot.worm on file Windows/System32.WINCFG.SCR. Norton couldn't
repair it, but after Quarantined, the problem went away. I am not able
to repair this Quarantined file, so I don't know what to do next. Hope
this helps, Pat P.S. Thanks Kelly
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Delete the file from Norton's Quarantine.

Malke
 
Hi Pat,

That file IS the virus, it's not a system file. Delete it without
reservation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



Pat said:
I had this same problem and updated Norton AntiVirus. It detected
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W32.spybot.worm on file Windows/System32.WINCFG.SCR. Norton couldn't repair
it, but after Quarantined, the problem went away.
 
taskmanager, cmd, regedit etc disappearing

Hi all...recently I faced this problem. There might be alternative solutions to this. what I did was :

1. Started windows in safe mode.
2. opened regedit.
3. go to edit and find next. search for commgr.exe, winsysapp.exe and winalert.exe
4. delete all the occurences of above entries. use f3 to find next entry.
5. find these file using windows search and delete these files too.
6. open recycle bin and delete these files.


Hope this helps.

/VirusBuster
 
beantown said:
help needed - cannot open Task Manager. Even when going
through the "start" then "run" taskmgr.exe, the task
manager opens for a split second then disappears. I was
told by Lexmark that I had too many Tasks open and had to
close them so that I could print Internet sites or
emails. Right now, I cannot print either. And if I
can't get to Task Manager, I can't quit the tasks...any
advice on how to fix? I'm running Windows XP and Office
2003 on my home computer.
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I faced the same problem and was seeking for my own solution.
I just made a copy of the file taskmgr.exe in C:\windows\system32 and changed the name of the copied file to taskmger.exe. I started the file taskmger.exe and it's ok. you can test.

PS: Don't rename the existing file taskmgr.exe, you may have a warning message, just make a copy of it and start the copy.
 
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