Re: Task Manager and REGEDIT not allowed by Admin - but I'm the Ad

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:59:12 -0700

Error Message: "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator"
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm 

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Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:BC056824-B9F1-4277-8B34-60EF33C2620B@microsoft.com,
Closeshubby <Closeshubby@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Well, i was able to look at the boot files using msconfig and didn't
> see anything unusual. I disabled a number of the files I didn't know
> what they did and rebooted but I still can't get Task Manager or
> REGEDIT to run from some users. The error message in both cases is
> almost identical and is strange - very nicely written in a box with
> no error code - much unlike a typical MS message!
> 
> The message is in a box with a big red X and the words "Task Manager
> has been disabled by your administrator". When I did go on in Safe
> mode, there were only 2 users - Administrator and Alex (the account
> with most of the problems). The other 4 did not show up at all.
> 
> Any more thoughts - I just hate having to reload the entire system.
> If I build another user and destroy the one with a problem, will that
> remove the old user info from the registry (and maybe fix the
> problem)? 
> 
> Thanks again for all your help!

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