Update on our problem. User could not run taskmanger, logoff and shutdown were also grayed out.
Winxp sp3 on a AD domain. This problem was caused by the latest update to the non paid LogMeIn program. User uninstalled it and everything went back to normal. It kinda looked like he was logged in remotely but actually was not. Strange. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can't run TaskManager Richard, There was a thread last week about a fake antivirus that disabled task manager. It apparently disabled it via a registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Sy stem] "DisableTaskMgr" Jeff On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: I have a desktop machine doing something troubling... It's a Dell PWS-380, WinXP-Pro SP2. In an remote desktop session, I was wanting to see if a specific process was running, so I right-clicked the task bar and chose TaskManager. I got the hour glass icon for about a second, then nothing - for quite a long time. I went to the desk and logged in locally. Same thing. I did a "chkdsk /f" command and rebooted. Logging back in (locally) I did see a gray icon for VIPRE Enterprise. Its agent version and definitions were current. I initiated a deep scan. (Hopefully, none of this is relevent, but VIPRE/SBamSvc was the process for which I was originally hunting.) So far, VIPRE has not detected any malware (yet!). I still cannot run Task Manager on this machine - either by right-clicking the task bar and selecting it, or by Ctrl-Alt-Del and clicking the Task Manager button. SO, I go to the machine and run "taskmgr.exe". To that I get a response - the file is not there. Any ideas as to what could have whacked that file? Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
