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<blockquote data-quote="MihiCherub" data-source="post: 12619806" data-attributes="member: 238676"><p><span style="font-family: 'Impact'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Gray">Original Posted By</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/member.php?u=137393" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/customavatars/avatar137393_1.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/member.php?u=137393" target="_blank">||~DxxCxxxx~||</a> <img src="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/images/bluesaint/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span> </p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px">Senior Member</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/images/bluesaint/reputation/reputation_pos.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Summary</strong></span> <span style="font-size: 15px">: Task manager can be disabled manually, but more commonly it's disabled by a virus. It's easy to re-enable once you're virus-free.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">My task manager has a "task manager has been disabled by the administrator" message. How did this happen and how can I correct this?</span> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Why: if you didn't do it yourself, the news isn't good.</span> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">How to fix it: there are a couple of ways.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Let's look at this more closely.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0C4599">•</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"> The situation's pretty simple. If you right click on the clock in the Windows taskbar, the <strong>Task Manager</strong> item is grayed out:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/taskmanagergrey.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"> Or, if you try to run taskmgr.exe manually, you get this message:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/taskmanagerpop.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">So, how did this happen?</span> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">As we'll see in a moment, there are settings you can access as an administrator that would allow you to disable and enable Task Manager in this way.</span> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">You didn't do that, you say?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Then a </span> <span style="font-size: 15px">virus probably did.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Disabling Task Manager is one way viruses try to make it harder for you to deal with their infections. Before proceeding any further, you should run a complete and up-to-date anti-virus scan of your machine. It's possible, perhaps even likely, that you've been infected.</span> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Once you come back virus-free, you can proceed with the fix.</span> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">•</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"> If you have Windows XP Pro, there's a nifty user interface to directly edit the setting you want to repair. Click <strong>Start</strong>, then click <strong>Run</strong> and type in <strong>gpedit.msc</strong>:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/rungpeditmsc.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">And press </span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>OK</strong>. This runs the Group Policy Editor.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Once in the Group Policy Editor, expand in turn:</span> </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> User Configuration</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> Administrative Templates</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> System</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> Ctrl+Alt+Del Options</span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 15px">You should see something much like this:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/gpeditcadoptions.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Double click on </span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Remove Task Manager</strong> to change its setting:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/gpeditremovetaskmanager.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It should be enough to click on </span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Not Configured</strong> and then <strong>OK</strong> and Task Manager is available once again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">•</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"> If you don't have Windows XP Pro, then you'll need to edit the registry manually.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Click </span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Start</strong>, then click <strong>Run</strong>, type in <strong>regedit</strong>, and click on <strong>OK</strong>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Expand these registry keys in turn:</span> </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> HKEY_CURRENT_USER</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> Software</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> Microsoft</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> Windows</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> CurrentVersion</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> Policies</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px"> System</span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 15px">You should see something similar to this:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/regdisabletaskmanager.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Right Click on the </span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>DisableTaskMgr</strong> item:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/regdeletedisabletaaskmanager.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Click on </span> <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Delete</strong>, confirm that you want to delete, and Task Manager should be available once again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">One thing to note is that it's quite possible that if you're in an environment managed by a centralized policy, these settings may have no effect. Your IT administrator may set things up so as to disable task manager, and other things as well at the domain level. You'll need to ask them if this is the case. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MihiCherub, post: 12619806, member: 238676"] [FONT=Impact][SIZE=4][COLOR=Gray]Original Posted By[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=4] [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/member.php?u=137393"][IMG]http://www.elakiri.com/forum/customavatars/avatar137393_1.gif[/IMG][/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][URL="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/member.php?u=137393"]||~DxxCxxxx~||[/URL] [IMG]http://www.elakiri.com/forum/images/bluesaint/statusicon/user_offline.gif[/IMG][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Senior Member[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][IMG]http://www.elakiri.com/forum/images/bluesaint/reputation/reputation_pos.gif[/IMG] [/SIZE] [SIZE=4] [B]Summary[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]: Task manager can be disabled manually, but more commonly it's disabled by a virus. It's easy to re-enable once you're virus-free. My task manager has a "task manager has been disabled by the administrator" message. How did this happen and how can I correct this?[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] Why: if you didn't do it yourself, the news isn't good.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] How to fix it: there are a couple of ways. Let's look at this more closely. [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0C4599]•[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] The situation's pretty simple. If you right click on the clock in the Windows taskbar, the [B]Task Manager[/B] item is grayed out: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/taskmanagergrey.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] Or, if you try to run taskmgr.exe manually, you get this message: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/taskmanagerpop.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] So, how did this happen?[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] As we'll see in a moment, there are settings you can access as an administrator that would allow you to disable and enable Task Manager in this way.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] You didn't do that, you say? Then a [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]virus probably did. Disabling Task Manager is one way viruses try to make it harder for you to deal with their infections. Before proceeding any further, you should run a complete and up-to-date anti-virus scan of your machine. It's possible, perhaps even likely, that you've been infected.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] Once you come back virus-free, you can proceed with the fix.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4]•[/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] If you have Windows XP Pro, there's a nifty user interface to directly edit the setting you want to repair. Click [B]Start[/B], then click [B]Run[/B] and type in [B]gpedit.msc[/B]: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/rungpeditmsc.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] And press [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]OK[/B]. This runs the Group Policy Editor. Once in the Group Policy Editor, expand in turn:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*][SIZE=4] User Configuration[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Administrative Templates[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] System[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Ctrl+Alt+Del Options[/SIZE] [/LIST] [SIZE=4]You should see something much like this: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/gpeditcadoptions.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] Double click on [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]Remove Task Manager[/B] to change its setting: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/gpeditremovetaskmanager.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] It should be enough to click on [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]Not Configured[/B] and then [B]OK[/B] and Task Manager is available once again. [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4]•[/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] If you don't have Windows XP Pro, then you'll need to edit the registry manually. Click [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]Start[/B], then click [B]Run[/B], type in [B]regedit[/B], and click on [B]OK[/B]. Expand these registry keys in turn:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*][SIZE=4] HKEY_CURRENT_USER[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Software[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Microsoft[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Windows[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] CurrentVersion[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Policies[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] System[/SIZE] [/LIST] [SIZE=4]You should see something similar to this: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/regdisabletaskmanager.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] Right Click on the [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]DisableTaskMgr[/B] item: [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][IMG]http://ask-leo.com/images/regdeletedisabletaaskmanager.png[/IMG][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=4] Click on [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]Delete[/B], confirm that you want to delete, and Task Manager should be available once again. One thing to note is that it's quite possible that if you're in an environment managed by a centralized policy, these settings may have no effect. Your IT administrator may set things up so as to disable task manager, and other things as well at the domain level. You'll need to ask them if this is the case. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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