[khersee]

When I try to access the Task Manager I get this message: "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator". What could have caused this? Also, when I right click on the task bar, the Task Manager option is grayed out. Kirk

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[khersee]

Unortuanately, my computer can't find the "Gpedit.msc" file as per the attached pic.

[gerryf]

windows xp home does not include gpedit because it does not support group policy--supposedly.

Unfortunately, group policies can still affect xp home

Odds are you have a malware infection that altered the registry to prevent you from killing it.

if you can open regedit
start > run
regedit
<enter>

navigate to here

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{7CFE4AFD-82D6-4A90-AD60-7F040463A15B}User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

in the right pane, delete
DisableTaskMgr

[khersee]

I don't seem to have a Group Policy Objects in this address. I get to Current Version and the rest isn't there. Kirk

[Spike]

Hi there try going to start > run and type this in:

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Let me know if this worked, goodluck

[khersee]

Oh thank you very much. Awesome. Any idea how I could have done that to begin with? It seems as though you'd have to know what you were doing. Anyhoo, thanks again. Kirk

[gerryf]

You just need toknow how to add/alter reg lines from the commandline. You just pick it up