task manager has been disabled by your adminstrator???

[gigapet]

That messeng pops up when i try to ctrl+ALT+Del on my XP prof machine. I am the admin and i did not change this option. It was working how it was supposed to work last week now all of a sudden I get this message. Is there an easy fix for this?

 

[cleverhandle]

If you're part of a domain, then it was probably prohibited via Group Policy, in which case there's no way for you to change it.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
If you're part of a domain, then it was probably prohibited via Group Policy, in which case there's no way for you to change it.

Knock, knock. He's the network admin, you would think he would be able to change it.

-Por

 

[spyordie007]

Knock, knock. He's the network admin, you would think he would be able to change it.

He said he was the admin, now he didnt clarify but I'm assuming he means "local admin" and not "domain admin". If he were a local admin he wouldnt be able to overide an inherited policy...

However I dont think his issue is group policy related because he says "when I press ctrl+alt+del" which would leave me to belive that he is using fast user switching. If this is the case than he cannot be a domain member. It could however be blocked by a local computer policy, I find this somewhat unlikely considering he would probably know if he did this and it is not even an option in the local security policy msc so it would have to be done via the registry; however it is possible that an application he installed has set a policy that has curtailed taskmgr's usage.

Your easiest "fix" would probably be to use system restore and go back to when it was working.

-Spy

 

[blizz]

If you're part of a domain, then it was probably prohibited via Group Policy, in which case there's no way for you to change it.

If you did connect to a domain the possibility exists to change it back... look here

Of course, if you reconnect to the domain, the group policy will prohibit it again.

Hope this helps.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: spyordie007

He said he was the admin, now he didnt clarify but I'm assuming he means "local admin" and not "domain admin". If he were a local admin he wouldnt be able to overide an inherited policy...

However I dont think his issue is group policy related because he says "when I press ctrl+alt+del" which would leave me to belive that he is using fast user switching. If this is the case than he cannot be a domain member. It could however be blocked by a local computer policy, I find this somewhat unlikely considering he would probably know if he did this and it is not even an option in the local security policy msc so it would have to be done via the registry; however it is possible that an application he installed has set a policy that has curtailed taskmgr's usage.

Spy, Spy, Spy, usually I agree w alot of the fixes you post but you let me down on this one. 🙂 Ctrl-Alt-Del can be used to launch task manager, lock the screen, change pwd, etc for a machine on a domain.

Try launching Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), drill down under User Config/Admin Templates/System/CAD Options and see if Remove Task Manager has been enabled. If so, set it to Not Configured. Reboot. Now if you are on a domain and your admin has enabled this as a domain policy it still won't work and you are gonna have to deal w it.

IMHO, there's no reason to lock users out of task manager. We disable the 'run' box so users can't start arbitrarily launching fun stuff but task manager itself can be helpful (killing hung processes probably being the biggest plus).

EDIT:

If you did connect to a domain the possibility exists to change it back... look here

Ok, next time I'll check the link first before telling him to do the same thing. 🙂

 

[spyordie007]

Spy, Spy, Spy, usually I agree w alot of the fixes you post but you let me down on this one. Ctrl-Alt-Del can be used to launch task manager, lock the screen, change pwd, etc for a machine on a domain.

Try launching Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), drill down under User Config/Admin Templates/System/CAD Options and see if Remove Task Manager has been enabled. If so, set it to Not Configured. Reboot. Now if you are on a domain and your admin has enabled this as a domain policy it still won't work and you are gonna have to deal w it.

I realize that my post was somewhat brief and maybe I was just getting ahead of myself and assuming too much but...

I got the impression that as soon as he hits ctrl+alt+del he gets the message, this would indicate that he is running fast user switching. If he is runing fast user switching it is unlikely that his computer has ever been a member of a domain because as soon as he joined it to a domain fast user switching would be disabled. If it's never been a domain member than it wouldnt have inherited that setting from anywhere. By his "I am the admin and i did not change this option" comment I would assume that he has never been into the local computer policy to set this which would leave me to belive that the setting was applied by some application (or someone who shouldnt have been allowed to use his computer with admin privilages). If removing the registry entry and checking the local computer policy to ensure it isnt set there does not alter this behavior than his easiest means of solving the problem would probably be just to restore back considering that "It was working how it was supposed to work last week".

EDIT: not that I'm saying that simply restoring back is always the best troubleshooting step, however in some cases (such as this one) it may very well be the easiest.

IMHO, there's no reason to lock users out of task manager. We disable the 'run' box so users can't start arbitrarily launching fun stuff but task manager itself can be helpful (killing hung processes probably being the biggest plus).

correct me if I'm wrong, but couldnt they still access the run menu from taskmanager? I've never had a need to disable the run menu so I'm not familier with it's behavior.

-Spy

 

[SoulAssassin]

correct me if I'm wrong, but couldnt they still access the run menu from taskmanager? I've never had a need to disable the run menu so I'm not familier with it's behavior.

Sorry, I was trying to say that we diable it in taskmgr. We also do it on the startmenu.