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Whenever any applications stop responding, the best thing to do is to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to load the task manager and terminate any affected processes from there. This is also fairly useful in disabling any harmful viruses and trojans that are running so you can delete them afterwards. This is actually why some of the smarter viruses and spyware go as far as disabling your task manager so the malware can continue to harm your system uninterrupted.
Things to Do when Your Windows Task Manager Disabled Unexpectedly:
If you have a virus scanner already installed in your computer, try to update it first to ensure that your virus scanner is capable of detecting the latest viruses. Then perform a full scan and see if anything turns up. There will most likely be a virus running in the background that is preventing the task manager from running.
If the virus caught you off guard and you don’t have a virus scanning solution available, don’t bother installing one because most likely the virus will also prevent you from installing an anti-virus solution. Some viruses may even hinder your internet connection as well so to be safe, boot into safe mode with networking and obtain a free virus scanner. You can try the free version of AVG and have your computer fully scanned.
Whether or not a virus is found, the task manager may still be broken, but what is important is that you get rid of the virus or trojan that keeps disabling your task manager. Now that you have gotten that out of the way, you should now focus on repairing your task manager.
This can easily be done if you install a registry cleaning solution such as RegCure. Disabling the task manager requires some tampering with the Windows registry and most of the best registry cleaning software know how to restore the bad entries to enable your task manager once again. Most of these registry programs cost money to fully use so if you are not ready to buy a registry cleaning solution, you can search for registry tweaks that fix the task manager. This is safe as long as you download these tweaks from trusted sources. Overall it is better to use a registry cleaning solution because it also backs up any registry entries before changes are made.
After your task manager is finally restored, continue to tighten your security by leaving your anti-virus running with live protection to ensure the problem doesn’t happen again. A firewall solution will make things even better and leaving your registry cleaner installed ensures that you are prepared for any attacks on the task manager.