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PIEMAN
Joined: 11 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: Task manager and regedit Help |
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My son recently downloaded LimewirePro,since then I have had problems
with start up,I have since removed LimewirePro from my system.
I had a worm on the system,I got rid of that with my antivirus program,but now I cannot access Task manager or regedit.
Any ideas anyone? |
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SoftStag
Joined: 05 Feb 2006
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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This is a good one, the fix is to edit the registry, but you can't!
I know what the registry key is that needs to be changed, I'm just not sure if this will be blocked by Windows or not....
 Open a Command Prompt (Start - Run - type CMD - Click OK)
Enter the following, exactly as it appears in the Code box below:
| Code: | | REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f |
Press Enter and it should make the changes
Try accessing Regedit
If this has been successful you will need to check the following 2 registry keys:
| Code: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System |
Check these keys for DisableTaskMgr and set to a DWORD value of 0.
If this went to plan, then everything should be back to normal. If not, let us know what happened.
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PIEMAN
Joined: 11 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for replying to my post Softstag,I tried the Command prompt you suggested, only to get a message box with the note “another programs is currently using this file”. Any other suggestion? |
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PIEMAN
Joined: 11 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Sofstag
Joy!!!!! Started my system in safe mode and could access regedit, could also access task manager, Therefore it must be something in normal start up. Low and behold a rogue program in common start up I disabled it whilst in safe mode, then restarted normally, everything is back to normal. By the way HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DWORD value was set correct
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Had no DisableTaskMgr
Thanks for you help anyway. |
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Steve
Joined: 07 Feb 2006
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Location: Bangalore, India
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Nice one Pieman. Do you remember what the rouge program was?
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