Re: Task Manager won't start

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Pa Bear...

I will check with Symantec... but doubt NIS is the culprit.

I think the PC Magazine Task Manager replacement utility I installed and ran
for a couple weeks must have blocked the Windows Task Manager.
Unfortunately... removing the PC Mag utility did not remove their block.

As I said in one of my posts here... I find taskmgr.exe on my hard drive but
it won't start. When I double click I get nothing... no error message...
nothing.

I don't know if the PC Mag taskmanager.exe block is inside taskmgr.exe or
they block it somewhere else.

jeff

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

Check with Symantec Support: There may be a NIS setting or <spit> Norton
Add-on installed that's denying access to Task Manager, Jeff. (If you'd
answered No to the other questions, I'd suspect a hijackware infection,
which still may be a possibility).

Also let me ask: Did you upgrade to NIS 2008 from an earlier version of any
Norton application (e.g., NIS2005; NAV 2006)?
--
~PA Bear

Jeff Ingman wrote:
Sorry for the serial replies...

Yes I can open/view the security tab.
<paste>
Start/Run/Taskmanager.exe does not work.

I'm running Norton Internet Security 2008 with no other security
software...
except there is a firewall in my BEC DSL modem.

Yes... regedit opens.
</paste>

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party
firewall
(if any)?

Can you open Regedit?

Start | Run | (type in) regedit | [OK]

Can you open IE Tools | Internet Options | Security tab?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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Jeff Ingman wrote:
I installed a Task Manager replacement utility from PC magazine. It
opened
and ran slowly so I uninstalled it.

But Task Manager has not come back. It does not open with Crl-Alt-Del
nor
can I right click on the Task Bar to start it. I get nothing when I
attempt
to start it - no error message... nothing.

I'm running XP Pro on a 3 year old Dell XPS.

Any quick fixes?


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