re: Windows task manager closes within seconds Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 1:25 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ko (1 messages posted) I recently came across same type of problem w/ Windows XP. Task manager and regedit close immedately. You can start Task Manager and regedit by copying the taskmgr.exe and regedit.exe to a new location and renaming them to progmgr.exe and progedit.exe. Then execute them from the new location with the new filenames. I found the problem to be a program random generated program running ... like jbsdfghtyz.exe. I looked this up in the registry and found the file listed under MSCONFIG in HKLM/Software/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce/ and in HKCU/Software/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce/. I deleted the entry and the problem went away. But then it came back with a different filename. I still do not know the cause but am working on it. On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 7:48 am, Nagaraj wrote: >Thanks Ricer.No i am not using an anti-virus software at this time.I need to get >one.I will download SPYBOT and see if it eliminates the problem.Any more pointers >would be appreciated. > > > Written in response to: re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Nagaraj: Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 7:48 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows task manager closes within seconds (Nagaraj: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 7:28 am) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Ricer46: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 7:40 am) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Nagaraj: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 7:48 am) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Ricer46: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 9:00 am) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (ko: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 1:25 pm) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (mark_f: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 4:55 pm) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Nagaraj: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 9:22 pm) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Dave Baxter: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 7:39 am) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (Dave: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 3:22 pm) re:FIX HERE (Dave: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 3:46 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (Rich: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 10:36 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (Tatu: Mon, Jul 7, 2003, 5:00 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (carlo: Thu, Jul 10, 2003, 11:38 am) re: re:FIX HERE (Jashin: Fri, Jul 11, 2003, 6:03 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (esotericsean: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 12:23 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (shabado: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 4:44 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (esotericsean: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 8:25 pm) I Found Your Fix, Dave (Lloyd Reynolds: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 10:22 pm) I Found Your Real Fix, Dave (Lloyd Reynolds: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 10:42 pm) Nooo! Listen up! (TagDaze: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 4:34 am) re: Nooo! Listen up! (Mike: Sat, Aug 9, 2003, 6:39 am) 35 O_o (TagDaze: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 3:06 am) re: 35 O_o (Mike: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 6:09 pm) re: re:FIX HERE (Peter Nolen: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 6:52 pm) I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (TagDaze: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 3:16 am) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (shabado: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 9:56 am) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (TagDaze: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 2:07 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Scott: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 10:21 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Mark D: Sat, Jul 19, 2003, 6:34 pm) i also had this problem and the file was called..... (Zach: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 9:42 pm) re: i also had this problem and the file was called..... (Larry: Wed, Jul 23, 2003, 1:15 pm) re: i also had this problem and the file was called..... (n0n4n: Tue, Jul 29, 2003, 11:25 pm) I know what this is. I know how to fix it. (knigitz: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 11:57 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Test: Wed, Jul 30, 2003, 12:17 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Mark Weedon: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 6:24 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Rellik: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 2:01 am) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Edge: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 12:16 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Alvy: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 9:20 pm) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Pat: Fri, Aug 8, 2003, 12:41 pm) bkdr_spybot.a (Jack: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 10:58 am) re: I dunno what it is, but click here for the solution! (Kevin: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 3:43 pm) Thanks to all of you who posted here! (Ed J: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 1:27 am) re: Thanks to all of you who posted here! (d52: Fri, Aug 8, 2003, 2:59 pm) re: Windows task manager closes within seconds (JJ: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 12:25 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum