Re: Task Manager wont appear

From: Rock <rock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:36:32 -0700

Pantherchi wrote:

I cannot get into my task manager, it appears only for a second then disappears. My antivirus has stopped working as well. Any ideas on why this might be?

More than likely a virus infection. What happens when you try to run either regedit or msconfig from Start | Run? If both those also bomb out it's an infection.


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Rock
MS MVP  Windows - Shell/User

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