How to Enable Task Manager

Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Step by Step Methods for Fixing Task Manager



Task Manager Has Been Disabled, How to Fix It?



Many times when working on a computer that has been infected with a virus, trojan, or piece of spyware I find myself with the Task Manager being disabled. Malware creators like to disable Task Manager so it makes solving the problem and removing the issue difficult.



If this happens you'll normally have to edit the Windows registry to fix the problem. A restriction has been placed on the user to not allow them to run Task Manager, this might be ok in an office environment where the IT department wants to control things, but in a home office this can cause major problems trying to fix a malware or virus issue.



Listed below you will find the many ways to reenable Task Manager along with an automatic method that works wonders.







Task Manager Has Been Disabled, How to Fix It?



Many times when working on a computer that has been infected with a virus, trojan, or piece of spyware I find myself with the Task Manager being disabled. Malware creators like to disable Task Manager so it makes solving the problem and removing the issue difficult.



If this happens you'll normally have to edit the Windows registry to fix the problem. A restriction has been placed on the user to not allow them to run Task Manager, this might be ok in an office environment where the IT department wants to control things, but in a home office this can cause major problems trying to fix a malware or virus issue.



Listed below you will find the many ways to reenable Task Manager along with an automatic method that works wonders.









First we'll begin with the various registry modification methods for correcting this problem.



Method 1 - Using the Group Policy Editor in Windows XP Professional



Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.

Under User Configuration, Click on the plus (+) next to Administrative Templates

Click on the plus (+) next tSystem, then click on Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options

Find Remove Task Manager in the right-hand pane and double click on it

Choose the option "Not Configured" and click Ok.

Close the Group Policy Window

Method 2: Change the Task Manager Option through the Run line



Click on Start, Run and type the following command exactly and press Enter

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



Method 3: Change Task Manager through a Registry REG file



Click on Start, Run, and type Notepad and press Enter

Copy and paste the information between the dotted lines into Notepad and save it to your desktop as taskmanager.reg

------------------------------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000

-------------------------------------



3. Double click on the taskmanager.reg file to enter the information into the Windows registry



Method 4: Delete the restriction in the registry manually



Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter

Navigate to the following branch



HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System





In the right pane, find and delete the value named DisableTaskMgr

Close the registry editor