Need Help With Taskmanager Problem!!

About a week ago, i checked my gmail email, it was supposely from a friend of mine that had me in his address book, and i opened the file. It was similar to what Some other guy had, that i read earlier. However, this one disappeared and i cannot find the damn thing. My taskmanager will not show up. At first, i thought i deleted it by mistake like i did a year ago, but that is not the case. Can anyone tell me how i can get my taskmanager back? I feel naked without it. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It looks to me like a virus is running some sort of malware (if that makes sense) which prevents you from opening the taskbar, in order to prevent you from terminating the virus. Of course, without a task manager, it would hard to tell if a virus is running, but that's the whole point.

My recommendation is to boot up in safe mode and run a virus scanner. Once the virus is removed, I have a sneaking suspicion that your task manager wil reappear.

Did you try to see what processes are running via ms-dos ?

tasklist is the command, use tasklist /? to see what you can do with it....

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Description: This command line tool displays a list of application(s) and associated task(s)/process(es) currently running on either a local or remote system. Parameter List: /S system Specifies the remote system to connect to. /U [domain\]user Specifies the user context under which the command should execute. /P [password] Specifies the password for the given user context. Prompts for input if omitted. /M [module] Lists all tasks that have DLL modules loaded in them that match the given pattern name. If the module name is not specified, displays all modules loaded by each task. /SVC Displays services in each process. /V Specifies that the verbose information is to be displayed. /FI filter Displays a set of tasks that match a given criteria specified by the filter. /FO format Specifies the output format. Valid values: "TABLE", "LIST", "CSV". /NH Specifies that the "Column Header" should not be displayed in the output. Valid only for "TABLE" and "CSV" formats. /? Displays this help/usage. Filters: Filter Name Valid Operators Valid Value(s) ----------- --------------- -------------- STATUS eq, ne RUNNING | NOT RESPONDING IMAGENAME eq, ne Image name PID eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le PID value SESSION eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le Session number SESSIONNAME eq, ne Session name CPUTIME eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le CPU time in the format of hh:mm:ss. hh - hours, mm - minutes, ss - seconds MEMUSAGE eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le Memory usage in KB USERNAME eq, ne User name in [domain\]user format SERVICES eq, ne Service name WINDOWTITLE eq, ne Window title MODULES eq, ne DLL name Examples: TASKLIST TASKLIST /M TASKLIST /V TASKLIST /SVC TASKLIST /M wbem* TASKLIST /S system /FO LIST TASKLIST /S system /U domain\username /FO CSV /NH TASKLIST /S system /U username /P password /FO TABLE /NH TASKLIST /FI "USERNAME ne NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /FI "STATUS eq running"