Task Manager gone...

quad_red

Hey all,
I don't know why but I can no longer get the task manager up.

Pressing ctrl+alt+del does nothing.
Right clicking the task bar and clicking task manager does nothing.

Where has it gone

Any ideas?
Cheers
Quad

irlrobins

Did you try restarting?

Sounds like you have some spyware or virus running? Have you any spyware cleaners installed? Spybot? Adaware? Windows Defender? If not go download one and run it. Also update your anti virus ssoftware

Read this

quad_red

I installed ewido.

Then went into safe mood and ran ewido, AVG, ad-aware and Windows Defender - although, as always, windows defender just hung the computer.

I had to reboot manually getting a message saying the disc volume was dirty.

Restarted windows normally and it's still pig slow and there is still no way to get task manager up and running.

irlrobins

Mmmmm, wonder if HD has become kaupt.

Open a command prompt (Start->run->cmd) and type "fsutil dirty query C:"

Does it say if it's dirty or not?

Ruu_Old

Start->Run and type "taskmgr" in the box, that should bring it up, also from the same Run box try "msconfig" and see if theres anything running in the startup tab that should not be.

Dooom

Came across this when I had a virus a while back, I can't remember the exact instructions, but a google search will give you the answers.

quad_red

Ruu wrote:

Start->Run and type "taskmgr" in the box, that should bring it up, also from the same Run box try "msconfig" and see if theres anything running in the startup tab that should not be.

Windows cannot find 'taskmgr'. Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, then click Search.

irlrobins

Your windows is fecked. Try a repair install. If that fails, backup, format and reinstall.

Ruu_Old

What OS are you running?

edit: if its xp, try system restore if you have it enabled.

quad_red

XP Home Edition with SP2.

Everything is updated etc.

System restore is not enabled.

Ran msconfig and some weird things (well, weird to me) appeared (see attached pic).

quad_red

irlrobins wrote:

Your windows is fecked. Try a repair install. If that fails, backup, format and reinstall.

Ya think?

Well, at least it's not catastrophic immediately and I can back everything up first I suppose.

Ruu_Old

Remove or disable those last two entries, look suspicious and restart.

irlrobins

those entries in msconfig look very dodge to me. Prob well infected with a virus. Prob best to format and reinstall. Make sure the files u back up are clean though.

quad_red

Ruu wrote:

Remove or disable those last two entries, look suspicious and restart.

How do I do that?

I ran hijack this and nothing like that appears. Why is it appearing in MSCONFIG?

quad_red

irlrobins wrote:

those entries in msconfig look very dodge to me. Prob well infected with a virus. Prob best to format and reinstall. Make sure the files u back up are clean though.

How? If the anti virus software we have isn't good enough to get rid of this thing then how do I clean the gigs of files I'm going to have to transfer to the other computer here?

quad_red

irlrobins wrote:

Mmmmm, wonder if HD has become kaupt.

Open a command prompt (Start->run->cmd) and type "fsutil dirty query C:"

Does it say if it's dirty or not?

btw, it says that C is NOT dirty.

irlrobins

Log looks clean.

Try running this. I find it good at picking up things that other progs miss.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm

28064212

quad_red wrote:

How? If the anti virus software we have isn't good enough to get rid of this thing then how do I clean the gigs of files I'm going to have to transfer to the other computer here?

The only thing you should be transferring is data i.e. music, documents etc. Any system or settings that could cause this shouldn't be moved

quad_red

irlrobins wrote:

Log looks clean.

Try running this. I find it good at picking up things that other progs miss.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm

Keeps getting an error when it comes to scan. I've taken all the active x restrictions off etc. Ah well.

Thanks for all the help guys.

Gonna start backing up and reinstall the OS tomorrow.

F*cking virus malware writing b*stards. :mad: