Task Manager Turned Off

[Guest]

When I press "control+alt+delete" a message pops up saying that my "task
manager has been turned off by administrator" Considering that I am on the
administrative and only account, and am the only user and have not touched
any setting on this computer in months, it must be some odd virus that has
done this.

Is there anyway to turn ON the task manager without having to open it?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_taskmgrenab.htm

Alternatively, click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Look in the right pane for a value called DisableTaskMgr. If it exists, it should be set to 0 (zero). If not, double click it and set it to 0. If it doesn't exist, right click in a blank area of the right pane and select New, DWord value. Name it DisableTaskMgr and leave it set at 0.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "obvme" <[email protected]>

| When I press "control+alt+delete" a message pops up saying that my "task
| manager has been turned off by administrator" Considering that I am on the
| administrative and only account, and am the only user and have not touched
| any setting on this computer in months, it must be some odd virus that has
| done this.
|
| Is there anyway to turn ON the task manager without having to open it?

Often caused by malware !


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


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