I was thinking about my students issue refer disabling “Active Desktop” and remembered that when I saw a machine infected with a Virus which not only changed the desktop to “Active Desktop” but also disabled the “Task Manager”. The Task Manager is a windows tool that allows you to see all the tasks/programs that are running on your machine and disable/kill those that you have problems with. No wonder Malware tends to disable this tool that is built into Windows.
In case you are stuck with such a problem all you need to do is to run regedit and navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System” and create a “REG_DWORD” called “DisableTaskMgr” and set the value to “0” this would enable the Task Manager” if you need to disable the Task Manager just set the value to “1”
Please note that if you are trying to use this at your office, it will not work in a domain environment, as domain policy will take precedence over local settings. If you are the Domain administrator just Enable or Disable Task Manager using the built in Group Policy Editor or gpedit.msc for individuals systems or do it in domain policy to set it up for the entire network.
Do note that you will find the settings under User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> System –> Ctrl+Alt+Delete options –> Remove Task Manager and set the value as given above.
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