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David

My question refers to Windows XP Professional. The
symptoms is that my Task Manager will not stay onscreen
when I press ctrl+alt+deletete. In fact, it blinks into
view and then disappears in less than a second. When I
have to exit one of those webpages that fills the screen
to the edges, leaving no X to click on or any toolbar at
all, I usually use the Task Manager to get rid of the
unwanted task ot page running.

I am wondering if this could be the cause. For some
unknown reason, my computer no longer displays the full
screen blue background and "User One Password" in the
left-hand (onscreen) corner. Now, it produces a small,
playing-card size box asking for my password, whether I
want to shut the computer off, go to Task Manager, and
another option or two. In short, I now have an
intermediate step or click between cntr.+alt.+delete in
order to call up the Task Manager, and that extra step is
this box that requires selecting Task Manager first.

Can it be that there is a faulty connection of some kind
between this box and the Task Manager? How can I get rid
of this obnoxious and fussy little box anyway, if only to
test if it is the cause?

Help!

Thank you.

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David
 
Note that in the future this is the wrong newsgroup for such issues, please
post your general xp questions to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.

However comma it unfortunately sounds like you've been infected with a
variant of the Klez virus, I've seen this complaint of Task Manger closing
itself before in other newsgroups. The fix is to go get a free Klez
scanner/repair tool from Symantec, or scan from Pandasoftware.com or any of
your other favorite scanners.
-OR-
Do a system restore to the last known good restore point.

Andy

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