When Vista gets locked up by a rogue process, I would normally start the Task Manager 
to kill the process.  Incredibly, this often isn't possible: Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing, 
and Start Menu/Run.../taskmgr also does nothing.

How do I kill a process if Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, and there's no way to launch 
the Task Manager?  This makes no sense -- I have to reboot the whole machine every 
time Firefox hits a plug-in it can't cope with?

Thanks if you can help...

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Hi Bathsheba,

You can press Ctlr+Shift+Esc instead to open Task Manager.

Hope this helps,
Shawn
There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.

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There are a couple of known Trojans that will disable it. Also some other process 
may have disabled it.
There is a MS KB for to repair this, I just can't find it right now. If you go looking 
make sure you are searching the one for Vista as the other versions are probably 
compatible.

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Bathsheba,

If you cannot get Task Manager to run, then this tutorial will show you how to get 
enable it again.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/103275-task-manager-enable-disable.html

Shawn
There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.

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Taskmgr is not disabled on my system, the problem is that it won't start when the 
system is locked up in certain ways.  It looks like it takes a lot of resources to 
launch, and when they aren't there Vista does not give it enough priority to run. 
 I don't really know anything about it, just saying that's what it looks like.

FWIW, I downloaded the KillProcess app which is a lot smaller.  I also learned about 
the tasklist and taskkill DOS commands, which could help if there's enough slack 
available to start a DOS window.
 
Thanks anyway...

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I found Shawn's replies using the Start, Run and Regedit command to access the Registry Editor in order to repair a "hide and seek" Task Manager very informative and interesting. I had the same problem with the Task Manager. It did a disappearing trick on me. After searching the net I came upon a couple of websites, which contain nearly as helpful information as one presented by Shawn, at: http:///www.vistax64.com/tutorial/ 1033275-task-manager-enable-disable.html. Glance at these two at: http://www.taskmanagerfix.com/ and also check: http://www.pchell.lcom/support/taskmanagerdisabled.shtml. With the info from both websites and of course the one Shawn showed us, I fine tuned my task manager and now it is running like a cheetah! Thanx a lot.

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On Monday, April 28, 2008 at 10:28 pm, Kiremerwa-Kato Simon wrote:

>I found Shawn's replies using the Start, Run and Regedit command to access the Registry

>Editor in order to repair a "hide and seek" Task Manager very informative and interesting. 

If my Task Manager were disabled, I'm sure I would have found them useful.


>After searching the net I came upon a couple of websites, which contain nearly as 

>helpful information as one presented by Shawn, at: http:///www.vistax64.com/tutorial/ 

>1033275-task-manager-enable-disable.html. 

This link doesn't work.



>Glance at these two at: http://www.taskmanagerfix.com/ 

This link is not relevant to the bug I'm reporting.


>and also check: http://www.pchell.lcom/support/taskmanagerdisabled.shtml. 

This link does not work either.


> With the 

>info from both websites and of course the one Shawn showed us, I fine tuned my task 

>manager and now it is running like a cheetah! Thanx a lot.

Glad it worked out for you.  Next time you might try and give back to the community 
by posting something other than dead and irrelevant links.

 

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Why dont you try checking for simple typos before making nasty snide comments about someone trying to help? I fixed the PC Hell link, its pretty good: http://www.pchell.com/support/taskmanagerdisabled.shtml As to the other one, that thread has been removed, certainly not the posters fault.

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I appreciate your civil, instructive and educated reply. It has class, kels69! Like a true scholar, you searched and found the source of knowledge. I wish everyone would follow your example. I do.

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