microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

Can you share where you found the "small file" and what you did to restore
the Task Manager functionality.

"Don" wrote:

> I have managed to restart the service using a small file I found in this
> forum. I still don't know how it was stopped though? When i open Task Manager
> I see a strange file kernels64.exe which never used to be there before. Maybe
> this is a virus? Maybe something to do with losing task manager?
>
> "Don" wrote:
>
> > when I try to open Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) I get the message "Task
> > Manager has been Disabled by your Administrator. I am the only one on this
> > computer with Admin rights. It's XP Home and the other user is my son on a
> > limited account. How could it have been disabled? How can I restart the
> > service?
> > Thanks