Locked Out of the Task Manager

davidacorddavidacord Humboldt CA
edited February 2009 in Science & Tech
My friends son has a laptop that has the task manager locked and it says to contact the system administrator :mean: Same old line.... Theres only one user profile! How do I fix this


Vista Home Basic

Thanks :)

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  • trolltroll Windsor, Nova Scotia Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    davidacord wrote:
    My friends son has a laptop that has the task manager locked...

    The laptop is infected with any number of virus/malware problems.

    What you need to do is get a copy of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

    Do a full scan of your computer and have it fix all that it finds.

    Also a copy of SuperAntiSpyware wouldn't hurt if Malwarebytes found anything.
    You can get it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

    Good luck!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Not necessarily. It could have a group policy enabled. How old is the laptop and where did it come from?
  • davidacorddavidacord Humboldt CA
    edited February 2009
    1) its a Vaio

    2) he has AVG so i doubt this is a virus or infection...this is just yet ANOTHER Vista aggravation concerning permissions (still haven't figured how to network vista and xp properly)

    3) they dont remember where they bought it... sorry
  • davidacorddavidacord Humboldt CA
    edited February 2009
    oh yeah...i DID find windows defender so I can look at the startup programs and see whats running at least
  • davidacorddavidacord Humboldt CA
    edited February 2009
    Well...I found my own fix! And unbelievably easily too *blush :o

    From: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/138240-45-locked-task-manager

    Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)
    Is the whole CTRL+ALT+DEL sequence disabled or just a Task Manager?

    Other key combination to access Task Manager is: CTRL+SHIFT+ESC , you
    might want to try that (most likely won't [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]work[/color][/color]grey_loader.gif
     if you're locked out).

    If you're locked out only from Task Manager, go to your registry

    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
    and check if DisableTaskMgr is set to '1'. If it is, change it to '0'.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    It <i>did</i> have a group policy enabled. :)
  • trolltroll Windsor, Nova Scotia Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Good call Thrax!

    That's the first Vista Home Basic I've seen with policy on it...
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