Why is my Task Manager disabled, and how do I fix it?

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Interesting. I am not having problems, but gave gpedit a try anyway. On my copy of XP Pro, the only sub folder under Administrative Templates is Windows Components. I don't have any of the others.

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Thank you very much for that information. It corrected the problem.

I have XP Professional and went through the gpedit.msc and it didn't work. I then edited the Registry as recommended, and it didn't work either. I still get the task manager disabled error message.
Before I did any of this, I ran McAfee and cleaned my whole system.
Any suggestions?

If you are still having a problem with the disabled task manager after you have edited the registry to remove it, then more than likely there is an auto loader that is reloading the disable task manager. It can be removed in safe mode once you have found the autoloader, most likely it is in a temp file. Its just a suggestion.

My task manager was disabled too but when i did the gpedit thing my task manager was in a 'not configured' state. After doing that thing it did not work still. Any solutions?

thanks this worked great. i thought i was never gonna be able to fix this lap top... once again thank u very much

I can't access run to perform the above task Why is my Task Manager disabled, and how do I fix it? and also i can't ;l locate system32.

To fix this error, download the FREE tiny utility - Task Manager Fix from http://www.taskmanagerfix.com

Thanx for this great article

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