task manager has been disabled by your...

[Xenozx]

ok every time i try to open my task manager (alt,ctr,del) it tells me "Task Manager has been disabled by your adinistrator." the only problem is I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR and now i cant access my task manager. Any idea's how to re-enable it, since i didnt disable or know how to disable it in the first place?

[PCgeek]

lol thats happened to me too thats micro$hit for you. I ussually reformat every 2 months so I don't know how to fix it...

[Xenozx]

the stupid part is i just formatted and now its comming up it wasnt before the format 8(

[Joe]

1. Have you messed with any of the administrative tools like the services? <BR><BR>2. have you tried creating a new identity to log on with in windows or safe mode? <BR><BR>3. have you messed with the registry at all? .. if so what have you done in there as of now?

[Joe]

<br><br><< <i>lol thats happened to me too thats micro$hit for you. I ussually reformat every 2 months so I don't know how to fix it...</i> >><br><br><BR><BR>btw your problem isnt microsoft .. your problem is between the keyboard and chair <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

<br><br><< <i><< <i>lol thats happened to me too thats micro$hit for you. I ussually reformat every 2 months so I don't know how to fix it...</i> >><BR>btw your problem isnt microsoft .. your problem is between the keyboard and chair <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"></i> >><br><br> LOL....leave the Geek alone <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> He does have a valid point though.....Windows does have a lot of bugs. I reformat very often, and there is always something else that won't work correctly, each time I reinstall. Right now, no matter what I do, MSN Messenger always starts when I open Outlook Express. Pisses me off. Yes, I disabled it from opening in the Outlook options. It isn't even the defualt IM client.

[TranceJunkieXL]

<br><br><< <i>MSN Messenger always starts when I open Outlook Express. Pisses me off. Yes, I disabled it from opening in the Outlook options. It isn't even the defualt IM client. </i> >><br><br> Messenger is a major PitA!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif" border="0"> I have it disabled in Outlook and Outlook Express, and have unchecked it from the start-up list and it STILL starts up every time I reboot. I've messed around with it, and even tried unintsalling it, but to no avail. I'd delete the entire Messenger file, but when I've done that in the past Windows starts freaking out.<BR>I use and enjoy Trillian thoroughly and would rather that POS MSN would just stop. LOL!<BR>Xenozx, Check your control panel Users and Passwords (I'm looking at 2000Pro right now, but it should be similar for the other OSes) and select properties for your user name. It's possible this is set to restricted. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Xenozx]

ok heres my answer i found the problem. I installed a tweak xp 3.02 program but messed up the activation process. because of this it password protected the program itself and locked my task manager. I had to go into my registry and delete the keys from it and every thing is fine now.<BR><BR>one more question tho. how do you get rid of these stupid messages from ip addresses?

[ElrichMeister]

dude i have that problem too, uggh i hate windows messenger

[MikeD]

Stop the Windows messenger service. go to 'computer managementservices and applicationsservices' then disable the 'messenger' service. It's useless anyhow.

[soapbath]

Orginal topic fix:
Start - Run - type "REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f"

[grafton26]

<< MSN Messenger always starts when I open Outlook Express. Pisses me off. Yes, I disabled it from opening in the Outlook options. It isn't even the defualt IM client. >>

There is a nice little script on the net someware ( dougs windows trweaks I think ) that will stop messenger from running at all, Its useful if you don't use it at all :D:D