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Task Manager -administrator Controlled I'm no longer allowed in task manager.

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Posted 29 May 2008 - 08:53 PM

In trying to remove some factory installed stuff [ chicony, Napster] I had to tinker & become administrator, or I thought. Somewhere along the way I messed up. Task manager is no longer found anywhere except in startup program permissions. Now it says this is Administrator controlled and won't allow me in. I can't get anywhere to change anything. It's my fault,I did it. I did get rid of some un-needed prorgams.
Please help.
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Posted 30 May 2008 - 09:45 AM

Click Start, search for Run, then type regedit in it.

Go to, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

You will see a Dword value named, DisableTaskMgr there. Its value must be changed to 1. Edit it and change its Dword value to 0 and it should work fine. Hope that helps

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  Posted 30 May 2008 - 01:32 PM

View Post78651214, on May 30 2008, 10:45 AM, said:

Click Start, search for Run, then type regedit in it.

Go to, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

You will see a Dword value named, DisableTaskMgr there. Its value must be changed to 1. Edit it and change its Dword value to 0 and it should work fine. Hope that helps



Thanks for the help. I think it did the trick. I had no idea Vista is like an ant hill .Most of us never see what's under the surface,or know what to do once we find it.
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Posted 30 May 2008 - 11:42 PM

You are welcome. Glad it solved your problem. LoL. This is not just about Vista actually. This used to happen to my uncle's Windows XP a lot.

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