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[Harry Tsindos]

I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
accounts - administrator & harry
When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says "the
task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not remember
doing anything like that.
How can I enable it again?
Harry

http://www.tsindos.com

[Harry Tsindos]

Sorry, I meant to say "Task Manager"


"Harry Tsindos" > wrote in message
...
> I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
> accounts - administrator & harry
> When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says "the
> task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not remember
> doing anything like that.
> How can I enable it again?
> Harry
>
> http://www.tsindos.com
>
>

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

"Harry Tsindos" > wrote in message

> I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
> accounts - administrator & harry
> When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says
> "the task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not
> remember doing anything like that.
> How can I enable it again?
> Harry
>
> http://www.tsindos.com

You ought to fix your clock or time zone.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[Sharon F]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:48 -0800, Harry Tsindos wrote:

> I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
> accounts - administrator & harry
> When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says "the
> task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not remember
> doing anything like that.
> How can I enable it again?
> Harry
>
> http://www.tsindos.com

I haven't run into this problem yet but MVP Doug Knox has been recommending
the following for this situation:

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT

Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System

Look in the right pane for a value called DisableTaskMgr. If it exists, it
should be set to 0 (zero). If not, double click it and set it to 0. If it
doesn't exist, right click in a blank area of the right pane and select
New, DWord value. Name it DisableTaskMgr and leave it set at 0.

--
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User

[Harry Tsindos]

Thank you for the reply Frank.
My clock and time zone settings are correct (although I cannot understand
what they have to do with the problem I had)


"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...
> "Harry Tsindos" > wrote in message
>
> > I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
> > accounts - administrator & harry
> > When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says
> > "the task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not
> > remember doing anything like that.
> > How can I enable it again?
> > Harry
> >
> > http://www.tsindos.com
>
> You ought to fix your clock or time zone.
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
> Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
> http://www.fjsmjs.com
>

[Harry Tsindos]

Thank you for the reply Sharon,
The problem is now fixed. That was it.
Do you have any idea what could have caused it? Because no one else uses my
computer and I check daily for viruses.
Thanks again...
Harry


"Sharon F" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:48 -0800, Harry Tsindos wrote:
>
> > I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
> > accounts - administrator & harry
> > When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says "the
> > task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not remember
> > doing anything like that.
> > How can I enable it again?
> > Harry
> >
> > http://www.tsindos.com
>
> I haven't run into this problem yet but MVP Doug Knox has been
recommending
> the following for this situation:
>
> Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT
>
> Go to:
>
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System
>
> Look in the right pane for a value called DisableTaskMgr. If it exists,
it
> should be set to 0 (zero). If not, double click it and set it to 0. If
it
> doesn't exist, right click in a blank area of the right pane and select
> New, DWord value. Name it DisableTaskMgr and leave it set at 0.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

"Harry Tsindos" > wrote in message

> Thank you for the reply Frank.
> My clock and time zone settings are correct (although I cannot
> understand what they have to do with the problem I had)
>
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Harry Tsindos" > wrote in message
>>
>>> I am the owner and administrator of a PC on a network and have two
>>> accounts - administrator & harry
>>> When I am logged in as harry I cannot open the "Task Bar" - it says
>>> "the task bar has been disabled by your administrator" and I do not
>>> remember doing anything like that.
>>> How can I enable it again?
>>> Harry
>>>
>>> http://www.tsindos.com
>>
>> You ought to fix your clock or time zone.
>>
>> --
>> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
>> Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
>> http://www.fjsmjs.com

From your headers:
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:27:56 -0800
Where -0800 indicates Pacific Standard time. Maybe it's your date. In
Missouri it's now 03:28 on Nov 13, so I'm answering seven hours before you
sent it (10:27 AM my time)
--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com

[Sharon F]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:29:46 -0800, Harry Tsindos wrote:

> Thank you for the reply Sharon,
> The problem is now fixed. That was it.
> Do you have any idea what could have caused it? Because no one else uses my
> computer and I check daily for viruses.
> Thanks again...
> Harry

Hi, Harry!
You're welcome and am glad that you have this fixed now.

No idea what the cause is. It has been a common problem lately which is why
Doug's solution was so fresh in my mind. Virus and spyware are always
suspect with unexplained changes but it could also be from a software or
driver installation, an accidental change by the user in one of the
administrative tools or just that you held your mouth the wrong way when
logging on one day. Whatever causes it, I sure am grateful that Doug has
figured it out.

You're current on your antivirus but perhaps you'd like to give your system
a quick online check for spyware:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.htm

--
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User