Re: Task Manager

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Glad to hear it.

BTW, the Task Manager has been disabled by your Administrator message is a
generic message that you get when DisableTaskMgr is set to 1. It doesn't
matter who or what changed the setting.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:C48675B5-49FE-4F9A-9806-E4616D1AC235@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Tim <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hello, thanks for the help the second link did the trick for me
everything is working fine now.

"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

Try one of these.

Error Message: "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator"
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm

Enable/Disable Task Manager
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_taskmgrenab.htm

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
51. Right hand side
Enable the Task Manager

Error message when you try to open Task Manager on a Windows XP-based
computer: "Task Manager has been disabled by your Administrator"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913623

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:ABF4EEA1-C790-4184-A6C5-759CAC603AD0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Tim <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
when i try and you my task magager it says the following "Task Manager
has been disabled by your administrator" but seeing that im the
administrator and i dont remember disabling it.... so my question is
how would a person go about turning the task manager back on?

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