Task Manager

[DEWTYFS]

When I press Ctrl + Alt + Del, the task manager doesn't
appear, or appears for only about 2 secs, and closes.

Any idea why?

It started to happen today, and the only thing I've
installed recently in Norton Personal Firewall.

I'm on XP Pro.

 

[Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\)]

Info on removing Spybot at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html

Special thanks go to Doug Knox MS-MVP for the following workaround:

Do the following:

Click Start, Run and enter CMD to open a Command Prompt window.
Then copy and paste the following commands into the Command Prompt window.

COPY %WINDIR%\System32\Taskmgr.exe %WINDIR%\System32\Taskmgr1.exe
COPY %WINDIR%\REGEDIT.EXE %WINDIR%\REGEDIT.COM
COPY %WINDIR%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSCONFIG.EXE
%WINDIR%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSCONFIG1.EXE

Then you can use the new file names to get into these utilities to use them
to help your troubleshooting.

--
Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User)
Associate Expert
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
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