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Regedit, Task Manager and Folder Options Malfunction
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Last year, I’ve got a file on my usb named “New Folder”. It has a folder icon ( the yellow one). I thought it’s a folder that’s why I clicked expecting some files to appear. I didn’t know that it was an executable file because of the icon. I just found out Regedit, task manager and folder options don’t work anymore. When I typed regedit on the run line, pop-up window appeared saying it was disabled by the administrator. Why would I disable regedit especially task manager? I’ve been using these apps. Soon I discovered it was a virus. I run process xp to view the services and programs running because I couldn’t use task manager. I found out this strange process named scvhost.exe highlighted with red. I killed the process then opened up Tune Up Utilities 2007 which was a trial version. I used its Registry Editor to delete the disable registry, disable task manager and no folder options keys along the HKCU path. Then under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon path, there was a key shell there with a value explorer.exe scvhost.exe. I deleted scvhost.exe so it won’t run again on the next log on. I went to c:/windows then deleted the file scvhost.exe. Then used ExplorerPortable Xp not the windows explorer and went to c:\windows\system32 then erased scvhost.exe. I used ccleaner to delete the start up key for yahoo mesengger which was using the file scvhost.exe.
You can get this scvhost.exe by clicking files that appear to be folders like smss.exe, New Folder.exe and explorer.exe. So never click them…
*You can actually manually solve any viral issues without relying much on Anti-virus programs.
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manufacturing Regedit and task manager
Posted by kamal at June 22, 2009, 5:28 pmyour tab menu my friend is just hidden. you have to double-click the brown color part outside the main body to get back the menu.
Posted by copernicus at July 25, 2010, 10:13 am


i got a problem with my task manager. the top of the file is cut off. i mean it does not show file, edit, tools, etc.also it does not processes and program tabs at the top. only main body of the program is seen. somehow i got the processes and there are 6 types of svchost.exe and also smss.exe . my comp gets stuck no anti virus can stop it or find anything. i tried to stop the processes on task manager but the system restarted. i dont know much abt comps so please, any advice would be gratefully accepted.
Posted by pierre at May 24, 2008, 7:25 pm