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March 7, 2009

Help, My Task Manager Is Disabled

by David Hakala

Windows’ built-in Task Manager is a pretty useful tool. It can help you shut down programs that are frozen or misbehaving. It can even shut down background processes that may be causing problems. Many people use Task Manager almost every day, so they are startled when they click on the Taskbar or press Ctl-Alt-Del and get something like this:

“Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator.”

If you work in an office that has a systems administrator go talk to him or her about the problem. But if you don’t have an administrator, how did Task Manager get disabled and how can you turn it back on?
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February 1, 2009

Use Windows Task Manager to Find and Shut Down Misbehaving Applications

Filed under: computer performance,Windows — Tags: , — admin @ 2:00 pm

by Tina Gasperson

Your computer is running slowly, freezing, stalling, and generally making a nuisance out of itself. The worst part is, you just got done giving it a complete “tune up” and things were fine for a short period of time. What’s going on? There’s a good chance there is an application or a process running that is using up all the available computing power your system’s CPU can provide. The good news is that there is an easy way to find out what’s hogging all the power. It’s called the Windows Task Manager.
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