Unable to run Task Manager or Regedit

[Phyllis]

I am no longer able to run Task Manger or Regedit on my
pc running Windows XP Home Edition. Both of the programs
actually start up but then disappear moments later. Any
ideas on how to diagnose/fix this problem ?

 

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

You are infected with the W32 Spybot worm.
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
http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzon

 

[ziggy895]

*I am no longer able to run Task Manger or Regedit on my
pc running Windows XP Home Edition. Both of the programs
actually start up but then disappear moments later. Any
ideas on how to diagnose/fix this problem ? *

In my case I was pretty sure the day that it started having thes
problems. I had only downloaded one file that was an application
"casey'sVideo.exe. It wasn't a virus as such, but someway altere
Windows when it was running in the task manager. Luckily, Juno stoppe
responding and caused CasetVido to atop to. I was then able to "En
Task" on the program that was causing the problem. The file was 10
KB. So you might try doing a search on your system for any EXE program
that are 100 KB in size and deleting them..
Thanks,
Gar


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