Annoyances.org
Home » Windows XP Discussion Forum » Message 1141464324 Search | Help | Home
  
Tip: Run a free scan for common Windows errors ad

re: taskmanager
Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 1:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve H (66 messages posted)


Taskmanager may have been disabled in group policies. Go to start/run and type gpedit.msc Expand User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System and choose Ctrl-Alt-Del Options. If the entry in the right pain is not "Not configured" change it to that. Hopefully, that'll fix your problem.


On Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 12:04 am, Mike Barrett wrote:
>I cannot now open Taskmanager although it did work a week or so ago. I now get a
>message "Taskmanager has been disabled by your adminstrator" (after Ctrl+Shift+Esc).
>The Taskmanager button is also greyed on the Windows Security window (after Ctrl+Alt+Del)
> I use a stand-alone PC (not part of a network) - so I guess I am the administrator
>(never had to worry about this before!).
>What actions do I need to take to get the Taskmanager back. I do not recall doing
>anything to deliberately remove the functionality of this feature. I presume something
>has set the Registry as the actual files are still there.
>Anybody know how to do this? Thanks, Mike


Written in response to:
taskmanager (Mike Barrett: Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 12:04 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: taskmanager (Mike Barrett: Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 2:53 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-taskmanager (Mike Barrett: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 12:04 am)
-re: taskmanager (Steve H: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 1:25 am)
-re: taskmanager (Mike Barrett: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 2:53 am)
-re: taskmanager (Steve H: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 4:33 am)
-re: taskmanager (Mike Barrett: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 5:22 am)
*re: taskmanager (Steve H: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 5:25 am)
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum


All content at Annoyances.org is Copyright © 1995-2009 Creative Elementtm All rights reserved.
Please do not plagiarize; redistributing these pages without permission is strictly prohibited.