re: BYPASS Solution Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 11:49 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mark Jackson (1 messages posted) So this thread has been going for 2 years?? I had the task manager / msconfig/ regedit not working problem and did a lot of internet research on the problem and only just now (after 2 days) fixed it. The final step that worked for me (as recommended above) was going to the system32 folder and deleting recently created files. I deleted about 10 files, held my breath hoping I had not deleted something critical, and rebooted.... seems to be ok and task mgr finally starts normally. I ALSO DISCOVERED A KEYSTROKE LOG IN THERE!! every keystroke recorded! very disturbing.... Steps I took - renamed task mgr and msconfig files. This allowed me to run the programs but obviously didn't solve the real problem. Ran Adaware and spybot search and destroy In safe mode, tried several antivirus scans. Panda turned up 5 viruses (trojans). subby.b qhost.m trojanvundo (norton turned this one up, used symantec's trojanvundo removal tool) I tried to document everything I did, but now 2 days later I seem to have a pile of scribbled notes. So, I SEEM to have solved my problem, finally by manually deleting files in the system32 folder, but I am still concerned about that log file. Thanks for the help. MJ Written in response to: re: BYPASS Solution (moe: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 9:01 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Task Manager Disappears!! (TRS: Sun, Jun 16, 2002, 2:40 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Allen: Sun, Jun 16, 2002, 4:46 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Pulse: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 9:38 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (michael downing: Sun, Apr 20, 2003, 12:13 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (DJK: Mon, May 19, 2003, 6:00 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (nkraman: Fri, Jul 25, 2003, 12:23 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Mark: Mon, Jul 28, 2003, 10:53 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Rolland: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 10:38 pm) BYPASS Solution (DDN: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 8:32 pm) re: BYPASS Solution (Wes Ferguson: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 3:49 pm) re: BYPASS Solution (DDN: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 7:48 am) re: BYPASS Solution (Mike Archibald: Fri, Dec 26, 2003, 3:44 pm) re: BYPASS Solution (sultan ali: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 5:29 am) re: BYPASS Solution (moe: Tue, Apr 13, 2004, 9:01 am) re: BYPASS Solution (Mark Jackson: Sun, Nov 28, 2004, 11:49 am) re: BYPASS Solution (RJV: Tue, Apr 11, 2006, 7:57 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Montibank: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 12:40 am) re: The Fix. (iamcanadian2222: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 1:07 pm) Thanks for helping (Firee: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 2:26 pm) re: Thanks for helping (Daniel: Thu, Sep 25, 2003, 4:09 am) re: Thanks for helping (Tim: Mon, Oct 6, 2003, 1:27 am) Changed taskmgr (AlienTech: Wed, Oct 15, 2003, 12:33 am) re: Changed taskmgr (finale: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 3:36 pm) re: Changed taskmgr (AlienTech: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 2:51 am) re: The Fix. (Mike Bird: Mon, May 16, 2005, 8:34 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