Lost Task Manager

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Have lost the task manger on work computer and couldn't get it back - have
managed to now - see below.

All updates installed including Malicous S.Ware tool.
McAfee AnitVir constantly running and updated every day.
Full Scan revealed Nada, Nothing, Zip.

Did manage to get process list from Excel's System Info Page - please see
http://www.skeggie.co.uk/Processes.txt - nothing I identified as a potential
virus/malware.

So far have tried Ctrl-Alt-del to select, right clicking application bar,
and doing Start - Run - taskmgr. All of which have zero effect.

C:\Windows\TASKMAN.EXE = V5.1.2600.0 by MS. 15,360bytes

C:\Windows\System32\TASKMGR.EXE = V5.1.2600.2180 by MS. 135,680bytes
Trying to run from explorer window here says file doesn't exist.

Only way I could get to the task manager was to take a copy of this file,
and run that. If I rename it back (on desktop) to TaskMgr.exe it says the
file doesn't exist. Renaming it back to TaskMgr2.exe and it brings up the
task manager.

Weird!

Anyone out there got any ideas how to resolve this? Still pretty sure it's a
Virus remnant, but how it's got under ththe radar is troubling!

Thanks


Chris
 
chris_meacher said:
Have lost the task manger on work computer and couldn't get it back
- have managed to now - see below.

All updates installed including Malicous S.Ware tool.
McAfee AnitVir constantly running and updated every day.
Full Scan revealed Nada, Nothing, Zip.

Did manage to get process list from Excel's System Info Page -
please see http://www.skeggie.co.uk/Processes.txt - nothing I
identified as a potential virus/malware.

So far have tried Ctrl-Alt-del to select, right clicking
application bar, and doing Start - Run - taskmgr. All of which have
zero effect.

C:\Windows\TASKMAN.EXE = V5.1.2600.0 by MS. 15,360bytes

C:\Windows\System32\TASKMGR.EXE = V5.1.2600.2180 by MS. 135,680bytes
Trying to run from explorer window here says file doesn't exist.

Only way I could get to the task manager was to take a copy of this
file, and run that. If I rename it back (on desktop) to TaskMgr.exe
it says the file doesn't exist. Renaming it back to TaskMgr2.exe
and it brings up the task manager.

Weird!

Anyone out there got any ideas how to resolve this? Still pretty
sure it's a Virus remnant, but how it's got under ththe radar is
troubling!
Click to expand...

Open your EVENT VIEWER, after doing that, press:

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

Anything happen in event viewer (refresh, look for errors under system and
applications) or on the screen (does Task Manager happen to appear?)
 
Shenan Stanley said:
Open your EVENT VIEWER, after doing that, press:

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

Anything happen in event viewer (refresh, look for errors under system and
applications) or on the screen (does Task Manager happen to appear?)
Click to expand...
No refresh on XP Event Viewer.

Opening and closing to manually refresh - nothing added from CTRL-SHIFT-ESC.
Nothing added from CTRL-SHIFT-DEL and selecting Task Manager.

Didn't know about the CTRL-SHIFT-ESC from event viewer, but doesn't open
task manager. Anothor one to the list of ways to attempt to run this ;)

There are 3 DCOM errors relating to printers setup on other computers,
shared over the network appearing in the system log, nothing in any of the
other 3 logs. These DCOM errors appear to get registered when the event
viewer is started, and again when it is closed.

2xRPC server unavailable, 1xClass Not Registered.

Anything else?

Thanks


Chris
 
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