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

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Good stuff, as always Leo. The help is appreciated.

nish: It's not something open for debate. These commands are how you restart it. If you are unable to start Task Manager after doing them then something may be interfering, but the instructions are not wrong.

i need help my run command will not allow me through administrator which my account is but im not allowed can you help i have norton online 2007 im running a scan but 3 qaurters way through and no infection found i have troubles with norton not the the best antivirus.

Thanks for the info, it did have some use, but my "Remove Task Manager" was already set to Not Configured but was still inactive. Changed it to "Disabled" and came back.

Thanks a million, Leo. Your procedure worked. My wife's computer WAS infected with a virus, and that had to be what was disabling task manager. The virus also popped up windows telling us spyware had infected our computer and took over the desktop, saying the same. The virus claimed we needed to download some spyware removal software. It all smelled like a rat, and it was a rat. Strangely, my wife has Norton Antivirus on her machine, but I don't. My computer is set up to do automatic Windows updates, and hers wasn't. Hers was infected, mine wasn't. Interesting that Windows Update seemed to be more important in fighting viruses than the anti-virus software itself.

Thank you. This worked perfectly for me. I believe RangerVirus was the cause of this for me, over 250 infections when I scanned with a strong adware package. Thanks for making the impossible seem quite easy.

Excellent instructions and worked the first time! I really appreciated this on the website as without TASK MANAGER it's almost impossible to shut down some programs when they crash. Now, if I could only get rid of trojandownloader.xs, my kids computer will be up and running once again!

Thank you Leo, solution for disabled Task mgr worked. And yes, a virus caused it. For all you youngsters out there, Don't download a "plug-in" from an unknown source.

I googled for weeks and finally came across this site http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035-1054868.html It is relevant to this error message for accessing taskmgr.exe: The application failed to initialize properly (0xC0150004). Click OK to terminate the application.

ok here is the problem i tried doing the regedit thind but as soon as i turn the number from 1 to 0 and i go back to regedit it turned to 1 agian. then i tried deleting it and creating a new one. but after i finish it says there is another one with the same name, and as soon as i come to regedit it the one i deleted is back

This worked for me. I also noticed two other items that related to not alerting to logon, and logon stuff. Happy to be rid of that little problem. Incidentally, I have Symantec AV Corp Ed, and it found nothing over the past few weeks that I've been without Task Manager.

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