re: Task Manager closes when opened Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 7:58 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Greg (1 messages posted) I did the same thing Doug did. I'm running Windows XP Home, and the offendign .scr file was named nbrute.scr. I couldn't delete it, so I just renamed the extension, rebooted, and all's well for now. On Monday, August 4, 2003 at 5:50 pm, Doug wrote: >I just got this problem and fixed it. There is a screen saver program I downloade >from a news group and click on by accident. It put a file in (windows 2000) winnt\system32 > called wincfg.scr.. you will also see it in you screen saver list. I did not have >this file as my screen saver. I changed the extention on the file since it is in >use and will not delete, reboot and task mgr work again.. good luck and be carrfull >what you click > > Written in response to: re: Task Manager closes when opened (Doug : Monday, August 4, 2003 at 5:50 pm) Responses to this message: re: Task Manager closes when opened (Mike: Monday, September 15, 2003 at 11:22 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Task Manager closes when opened (George: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 8:49 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Bob B: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 9:09 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (sachin Patel: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 4:02 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Joel: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 12:48 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (sonny: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 3:32 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Doug : Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 5:50 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Greg: Sun, Aug 17, 2003, 7:58 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Mike: Mon, Sep 15, 2003, 11:22 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Colin Cogle: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 11:26 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Harrison: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 11:38 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Harrison: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 11:42 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Otto: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 7:18 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Ilya Mayzus: Sun, Aug 17, 2003, 4:42 pm) THX (King_Fries: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 3:21 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (NeoDeltaI: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 7:01 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (sonny: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 3:37 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Brandon: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 7:30 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Don: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 2:00 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Erick C.: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 5:37 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Don: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 9:04 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Harrison: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 8:08 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened = spybot (arend vogel: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 4:49 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened = spybot (ObsceneJester: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 6:17 am) re: A suggestion to fixing Task Manager closes when opened = spybot (mike: Thu, Feb 26, 2004, 11:50 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Jason: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 10:28 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (James: Sun, Jun 20, 2004, 6:44 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Tsvetoslav: Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 7:52 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Gareth Gudger: Mon, Mar 14, 2005, 8:43 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (David: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 3:07 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Falcon: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 3:17 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Rob: Mon, Aug 16, 2004, 8:06 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Rob: Mon, Aug 16, 2004, 8:13 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