Re: Lost Task Manager

chris_meacher wrote:
Have lost the task manger on work computer and couldn't get it back
- have managed to now - see below.

All updates installed including Malicous S.Ware tool.
McAfee AnitVir constantly running and updated every day.
Full Scan revealed Nada, Nothing, Zip.

Did manage to get process list from Excel's System Info Page -
please see http://www.skeggie.co.uk/Processes.txt - nothing I
identified as a potential virus/malware.

So far have tried Ctrl-Alt-del to select, right clicking
application bar, and doing Start - Run - taskmgr. All of which have
zero effect.

C:\Windows\TASKMAN.EXE = V5.1.2600.0 by MS. 15,360bytes

C:\Windows\System32\TASKMGR.EXE = V5.1.2600.2180 by MS. 135,680bytes
Trying to run from explorer window here says file doesn't exist.

Only way I could get to the task manager was to take a copy of this
file, and run that. If I rename it back (on desktop) to TaskMgr.exe
it says the file doesn't exist. Renaming it back to TaskMgr2.exe
and it brings up the task manager.

Weird!

Anyone out there got any ideas how to resolve this? Still pretty
sure it's a Virus remnant, but how it's got under ththe radar is
troubling!

Open your EVENT VIEWER, after doing that, press:

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

Anything happen in event viewer (refresh, look for errors under system and
applications) or on the screen (does Task Manager happen to appear?)

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