Comments on: Fix Can’t Open Task Manager

By: deepak

deepak — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:11:52 +0000

thank you very much now i can open the task manager, thanks allot

By: josh

josh — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:23:59 +0000

thank god for this, that bastard ass bug kept me up last night…..well its pretty screwed now!!!

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:06:32 +0000

Major help please! Got this Vista Guardian kak on my laptop, have tried to kill it using a registry process killer, but now the PC will not boot up either normally or in safe mode. I have even put the hard drive into another computer as a slave drive and tried to remove the virus with SpyDoctor, but its no different when fitted back into the laptop. Please could somebody help and let me know what I need to do. I would prefer not to reinstall the OS as I then would have to reinstall all the program files too, it would simply take too long!

By: RYAN

RYAN — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:31:53 +0000

BLAH BLAH BLAH, it might work to rename taskmanager, however if you just restart your computer and press controll-alt-delete ASAP and if your quick you can just shutdown the process before it completely grasps control of the system, I know the name of every process my computer runs so it was easy for me to spot the bad process, i wouldn’t try this if you don’t know what processes your comp is running normally, however if you think your as quick as me… go for it, ctrl-alt-delete click click boom. and then you can go into your remove programs and take care of business, and maybe delete a couple registries, i dont know the recipe, however if your virus is named “Antivirus Soft” you had what i had so good luck, its a doozey…

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:49:08 +0000

I have windows Vista on my computer. I have tried to change the taskmgr – Copy to iexplore, and I have tried to rename taskmgr to explore, nether one will open up the task manager menu. Is there a problem with Vista that this will not work?

By: robert

robert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:38:38 +0000

wtf i still cant get it off nor even attempt to remove it it has totally block me from getting in my computer files i cant copy then change i cant download and i need some major help can anyone please give advice. @Robert: Try booting into Windows Safe Mode with Networking and then running a spyware scan.

By: camelia

camelia — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:14:54 +0000

i tried d/l Process Explorer and it won't let me run it! @Camelia: Try this - Stop the process by downloading Process Explorer and ending the process. It has been renamed to explorer.com in order to trick the spyware to let it work. You can learn more about Process Explorer here.

By: todd

todd — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:41:57 +0000

I tried the copy and rename option, but it doesn’t let me rename it, a message pops up saying “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator”.
I cannot open internet explorer either, so i can’t even purchase spyware doctor to remove it that way.

@Todd: Have you tried booting into safe mode?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:39:38 +0000

@jason: Try the following: Stop the process by downloading Process Explorer and ending the process. It has been renamed to explorer.com in order to trick Antivirus Live to let it work. You can learn more about Process Explorer here.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:10:54 +0000

I tried the copy and rename option, but somehow it knows the file name iexplore is actually the task manager because it pops up a message saying “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator”.
I also tried starting up my PC in safe mode, but I get the blue windows error screen saying my PC is shutting down. HELP!!