Before reading this post, please try out this first. Right-click in your System Tray /Task Bar and click on ‘Task Manager’. Is it grayed-out? This means that your Task Manager has been disabled? This is a very familiar scenario if your PC is suffering from a virus. Even if you are logged in as an administrator and you haven’t manually done anything to disable the task bar, the viruses do this so that you aren’t able to see or end the background processes that it is running and get rid of it.
So, how can you enable the Task Manager? There are 2 easy methods.
Method 1- Through Group Policy Editor
- Go to Start -> Run
- Type ‘gpedit.msc’ without quotes and enter. (Group Policy Editor will open)
- Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+DelOption
- In the right pane you will see an entry ‘Remove Task Manager’, double click it (Remove Task Manager properties will open)
- Select ‘Not configured’ and click OK and that’s it your task manager will be enabled.
Method 2 – Through Registry Editor
In this method we are going to change the “registry” settings. So, before making any changes make sure that you have backed up the registry properly in case you might change something else whose result can be not so pleasant.
- Go to Start -> Run
- Type ‘regedit’ without quotes and enter (Registry Editor will open)
- Navigate yourself to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies System’
- In the right pane there is a DWORD value ‘DisableTaskMgr’
- Double click it and change it’s value to ‘0’ (0 is for enabling and 1 is for disabling the Task Manager)
- Exit the ‘Registry Editor’ and you are ready to use the ‘Task Manager’
You can use any of the above process according to your preference to enable the ‘Task Manager’.
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