Daddy Gray said:
I tried to open Task Manager last night, and got an error message that said
TaskMan had been disabled by the administrator. That would be me, and I
disabled nothing. (Also, was going to try a System Restore to see if that
might restore TaskMan, but there were no restore points for April except for
the 18th, which it wouldn't restore to, and I couldn't get the calendar to go
back to March or beyond.)
How can I get Task Manager turned back on? And any ideas on what's up with
my System Restore? Not sure if it's a related problem or just coincidence.
Allows you to enable or disable Task Manager
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_taskmgrenab.htm
Open a run command and type in:
regedit click [OK] on the Registry Editor locate this Key and see if
Disable Taskmanager set to 0 or to 1, if been set to 1 please set to (0)
[-]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr" DWROD 00000000
Close the registry editor and perform the cleaning steps:
Go through these Cleaning steps:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .
Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the Non/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm
Run a scan from here on-line:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Download Avast Cleaner (off-line scanner) from here:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
Let us know your progress.
nass
