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

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sry for the comment i made earlier, i've found a solution on this site http://www.technize.com/2007/07/02/registry-editing-has-been-disabled-by-your-administrator/ and i've used this tweak that they gave which i don't know whether its gd or bad, do u mind explaining a bit on this, REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Well, Thanks a lot lori,this information really worked for me.I had been getting this problem from couples of days,after seeing this forum ..... I hv got my task manager back with a bang.......thnqq........lolzz........

I just can't access my registry editor yet.
What best AntiVirus free in this world??
Would you mine to tell me, via email??
Thank you so much..........

THANK YOU!!!!
that helped sooo much,other web sites have told me to set the disable tsk mngr file to 0,and that didnt help at all!
but ow i am runing again thanks too your help
I will deff be using this site again and tell my friends about it

Thank you,Ian Baker

This was immensly useful. Having bitten by the Autorun worm I was trying to get the machine to come back to normal. Even the Regedit wasn't launching.. so where's what I did...

To enable Regedit
A-1) Start -> Run
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Launch Regedit now and delete the Taskmanager registry entry as Leo explained

i've tried the above mentioned methods. nothing is wrking. neither is my regedit working. wat do i do? i have avira. after scanning it shows d reports but no way to delete d virus........ help me out

My system (Win Xp Pro) was affected by a virus or malware, I Use Avast (It has real time protection) and malwarebytes (no real time protection) I do not think that my comp is still clean even though Malwarebytes detected some malware and removed them b'coz my comp is still very slow and I think it may have some trojan in it as well . but never the less with this article i was able to reactivate my task manager and regedit was as well disabled and one of the comment on this site helped me so again thank u LS for your comment. Here are the details of the infected file. 1.Worm.Autorun (registry value)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current version\Run\MSN Messenger,
2.Worm Auto Run(File) c:\Windows\system32\SVRCHOst.exe,
3. Hijack.System.Hidden (Registry Data) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current version\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL\Checked Value,
4.Hijack.Regedit (Registary data)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current version\Policies\System\DisableRegsirtyTools, 5. HijackTask manager (Registry data) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current version\Policies\System\Disabletaskmgr, 6. Hijack Folder Options (Registtry Data) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current version\Policies\Explorer\NoFolderoptions. As I told u earlier I do not think that my comp is clean and i had to delete the Disable Task manager manaually and i can still find Disable Regisrty tools, No folder options for the Hijack Malware in my registry and a tool from Malware bytes called as File Assasin can locate SVRCHOST.exe in the sytem 32, can i delete them and can I as well delete Disable Regisrty tools, No folder options from the registry as I did to enable the task manager

ctrl+alt+del.is not come under the system row...still the problem is stand

I have dled the freeware AVG and scan my disk C and i found a trajan and i have already healed and removed it. But all yr above methods don;t work for me. Mine is windows XP. I've tried both methods but it didnt work. The 2nd method when i typed in regedit and enter. it said registry editing has been disabled by the adminstrator. SO how do i solve this prob? Yr help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I have dled the freeware AVG and scan my disk C and i found a trajan and i have already healed and removed it. But all yr above methods don;t work for me. Mine is windows XP. I've tried both methods but it didnt work. The 2nd method when i typed in regedit and enter. it said registry editing has been disabled by the adminstrator. SO how do i solve this prob? Yr help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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