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But what if the run command is "disabled by your administrator"?

Archived in the category: Troubleshooting, registry editing, technology
Posted by greatmj on 03 Dec 08 - 0 Comments

Simple. Works for both XP and Vista(and most probably ancient versions of windows too! )

Go to: C:\Windows\System32 (if C is your installation partition)
Open gpedit.msc
Click on User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar
Find the entry that says “Remove Run menu from Start Menu”. Double click it.
Change the value to “Enabled.”

Done! Now [...]

Cannot find msconfig.exe error

Archived in the category: Operating System, Windows XP, computer software, operating systems
Posted by Shadow on 01 Dec 08 - 0 Comments

Well, another common error that we get is this one, “Windows cannot find ‘msconfig’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.”
First do a complete system scan before you proceed. It might happen that some virus did this thing.
After [...]

Task Manager has been disabled by your Administrator Error

Archived in the category: Operating System, Windows XP, computer software, operating systems, registry editing
Posted by greatmj on 01 Dec 08 - 0 Comments

Annoying. Annoying. This error msg: “Task Manager has been disabled by your Administrator.” is truly annoying whenever you try to run the task manager (Shortcut: Press CTRL+ SHIFT + DEL , CTRL + SHIFT + DEL). Well, this happens when:

It truly is disabled by the admin.
Virus

If it’s the second case, just update your anti-virus definitions [...]