Re: Windows Task Manager does not work

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"roofrabbit" <roofrabbit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> After a reboot, trying to access Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) results in
> message "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator." That's
> me,
> I'm my own administrator on Windows XP Home.
>
> How can my administrator re-enable Task Manager? Asking him to do so has
> proven ineffective.
>
> What's known:
>
> 1. Using regedit to look at the registry key
> hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\system
>
> Here's what I see:
>
> Name: Type: Data:
> (Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
> DisableRegistryTools REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)
> Disable TaskMgr REG_DWORD (invalid DWORD value)
>
> What DWORD is needed to be inserted? How do I insert it?
>
> 2. When I try to run gpedit.msc I get an error message that the file
> can't
> be found. I searched for gpedit.msc and the file doesn't exist on the
> computer. The computer has 4 profiles.
>
> 3.I have been getting frequent WinMgmt errors in EventViewer --
> Application
> -- Error # 28, which says WinMgmt can't initialize core parts. These
> error
> messages have been occuring for a week or two before Task Manager quit
> working. Are these two connected?
>
> What to do?


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