I worked on a computer this week that had Task Manager grayed out.
Several anti-spam, registry checking programs had installed themselves.
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Ronald Sommer
"Urbane Tiger" <urbane.tiger@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:50:25 -0500, "Ron Sommer"
> <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
>>You must have XP.
>>Outlook Express is still on your computer. Check if msimn.exe is a
>>running
>>process.
>>Check before you try starting WLM.
>>Check the WLM shortcut. Is it
>>"C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Mail\wlmail.exe" ?
>
>
> yep its XP, WLM shortcut is OK
>
> But Task Manager has been disabled by the administrator, I asked why
> and he denied doing it, I can't argue with him 'cos him is I?
>
> So I loaded up SysInt's Process Explorer - couldn't see msimn.exe.
>
> Also selected option to replace Task Mangler with Process Explorer,
> strangely it will come up with a Ctrl/Alt/Del but the task bar context
> menu still has Task Manager greyed out.
>
> This feels very virusy to me -- bloody cat -- I'm off to the xp
> group.
>