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I have a problem that I can't figure out. Whenever I open regedit, or task manager, or something similar, it immediately closes w/o even giving me a chance to adjust anything. Any ideas as to why this may be? TIA.
Sammy
You have a virus on your system. Are you using any type of anti-virus software? If you do not go to this link HouseCall
KTTD
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A virus!? Which one? I have Norton Anti-Virus, and try to keep it fairly updated...I'll try your link though.
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"Fairly Updated" won't cut it.Have you even ran your NAV with updated definitions?
The link to Housecall Kevin gave you should also reap the same results,however.
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I can't tell you which one you have but the virus is protecting itself. If you can run regedit you can't stop it from running at startup and the reason you can't get to task manager is to stop it from running in the background.
There are tricks to get around both of the problems but try HouseCalls first and if it does not work, get back.
KTTD
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NAV was updated a couple of days ago...which of course was last week. I do it when it pops up a message on my screen saying it's time to update.
Housecall will give me the same results as what? Slightly confused on that one.
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looks like it is common problem, I do think
you are number 5 with that problem.I tried to talk with MS-support, but as my Xp was a preinst. OEM-version they would not say a word before I had payd about 120 US$ for starting a support !!
The only advice I could get from Siemens was to reinstall Xp on a total blank HD.
What you have to do is:
set up a new profile
open this
call regedit
close regedit normal
shift to your old profile
now you should be able to run task-monitor, regedit and the other stuffIt has worked for me and a couple of other
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I wonder if MS are reading Computing.net
They claim, that they have never heard of that problem before, strange all that time that there have been 5-6 with that problem on this site in the past 2 weeks
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My apologies if this is a repeat:
Elsewhere, helpful people suggested renaming the task manager .exe file (to somethingl like managetask.exe) and running that. It worked for me. Then look for funky, unfamiliar processes running in task manager (or now managetasker!). Halt the suspicious task, exit task manager and try to start it with its real name. Same idea works for the same problem with regedit and edlin.
When I looked in system 32, I found the culprit named itqnmyhv.exe and renamed it something.old. On rebooting, TM worked.
BUT . . . I noticed a large number of 23K files (same size as the culprit), all with an August 2, 2003 "modified" date. I had to do the same thing to another file to get regedit to work normally.
Anybody have more info on this? I am not an expert, so there may be some problems with this advice.
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Had the same problem as Sammy. Nearly drove me crazy. Went out to Housecall on the link that Kevin provided. There i was able to scan my PC. Had the same virus in a dozen or so files. Was called "Worm SpyBot.Gen"
Website adviced if it can't clean it after it finds it just delete there in the drop down Box. Managed to delete them all, but one. Started the Comp in Safe Mode, there I deleted the last one.
Reboot.
After Two days my PC is finally back to normal.
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Hi i m having the same problem. Unfortunately none of the solutions up there helped my XP. even if i change the name of taskman.exe it wouldnt even run in the taskbar. My virus scanner (NAV up to date) doesnt detect anything. Regedit wouldnt work even if i copy paste and try to run it with different name.
Using different profile wouldnt work either. It still wont run them.
If anyone has any other ideas please reply ~!
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