my task manager has been disabled by administrator, but i am the admin. How to solve this problem?

Question

Everytime i startup my pc, it comes up alot of boxes like the command prompt,eg, C:\WINDOWS\system32\DLH9JK~3.EXE.

What is going on? I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del, it shows me "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator".

I also found out kernals88.exe is running on my pc. Is this a trojan/virus? And how to kill the process without accesing the task manager?

How to solve this problem without formatting????

Answer 1

This sounds like a startup script is running. This could be pushed out by admins, or this could be a virus.
This web site:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm
tells you to do the following:
* Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
* Navigate to the following branch:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Policies
\System
* In the right-pane, delete the value named DisableTaskMgr

If your regedit is disabled, try this in a command prompt (all on the same line):
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr
/t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f