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

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I went through the steps and got my task manager and regedit back. I was very happy with the results until I rebooted my system and tried to log in. To my surprize it logged my back out repeatedly. Is it a different virus or the same one changing to make my life more complicated. HELP!!!!

In my gpedit.msc the task manager option is not configured and regedit is not going thru in run. what might be the reason

Thanks Leo! I first had to figure out how to get the registry re-enabled for my mother-in-law's computer, but once I got that done, your sequence worked well (had to search the registry for "DisableTaskMgr" as it wasn't quite in the same spot as advertised).

Worked great. Mine siad it was not configured but changed it to disabled and its working great again.
cheers.

Thank you for your fantastic instructions! I followed them to the letter (after running Avast thorough virus scan) and wa-la! The Task Manager is back. Just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you!
Janice in Florida

Thank you for your marvalleous instructions! I followed them to the letter (after following instruction of gpedit.msc)! The Task Manager is back. Just wanted to say thank you!

My problem is that i do not have an antivirus installed. I tried installing Bit Defender yesterday but it said you dont have the priviliges. Task Manager was disabled. If this works and the task manager is enbled then i can install the anti virus, right?

Hello i need your help. The run thing is disabled, taskmgr, and i cant open any folders including c drive can you help???

also my run program disappeared... what am i gonna do? im tired of always installing xp over and over again... please help...

I've got the same problem, except that I know that the network admin on this system deliberately did that. My question is what is the "vulnerability" that he's so scared of? What does he/she/it think we're all going to do if I have the ability to stop a frozen programs by a method other than pulling the power cable from the back of the CPU??

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