We are going to talk about different Task manager problems and I will introduce you a highly developed task manager tool from Sysinternals.
Lets see how can you access the Taskmanager in various ways?
a) Pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL
b) Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC
c) Right click on the taskbar and then click on Start Taskmanager.
These are the main problems you will face with Taskmanager
# Task manager has been disabled by your administrator
This can cause a Virus infection which will affect the registry and change the security policy.
Method 1:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
When you select the system on the right side you will see “DisableTaskMgr” double click on this key and change the value to “0” from “1”
Method 2:
Go to run and type Gpedit.msc
Then navigate to User Configuration> Administrative Templates>System
Where you will see “Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options” on the right side. Double click on this key and select “Not Configured” This will enable the taskmanager.
But remember if this is experiencing because of a virus infection make sure you eradicate the virus and go after this to enable the taskmanger.
# Taskmanager will not display the menu bar
Double click on anywhere on the taskbar to display the menu.
# Taskmanager will not display when right click on the taskbar and press CTRL+ALT+DEL
Run the Process Explorer and click Options then click Replace Task manager after that again click on Options and say Restore Taskmanager. Actually what it does is when you say Replace the taskmanager it will replace the native task manager with the process explorer and when you restore the taskmanager it will restore the taskmgr.exe.
We can fix this problem in one more way that you can copy the taskmgr.exe from another computer and replace the one in your system32 folder.
Now let’s discuss about process explorer
Process explorer is a tool from sysinternals which is an advanced form of taskmanager. This can be used when you do not have access to the regular taskmanager. You can analyze the running processes and find out suspected process and search online to make sure it’s not a fake file. (Select that particular file and click on Find and say Search Online) Where in DLL>Search online option will provide you the search result about a highlighted DLL file.
When you press CTRL+D its will show all the Dll files which is associated with exe file in the lower pane of the window and CTRL+H shows the Handles
Finding the handles is really useful feature when you need to delete an undeletable virus file. It can be done using the Find>Fine Handles or DLL [CTRL+F] and then type in the file name with extension which you want to delete and search. It will display all the handles for that particular file. Double click on the handle and it will take you the the lower pane of the process explorer there you can right click on the handle and say Close and that will close the file handle. So once you close all the handles for that particular file you can delete the file from your pc. Or else you may click on any running process then press CTRL+H will display the handles for that process.
Searching for a handle
Closing the selected handle
Download Process Explorer from Microsoft
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