System Tray/Task Manager Issues

[greyxtawn]

Two things happened simultaneously today right after I ran the Confiker Tool from MS.

I lost control of task manager and I lost control of my system tray.

Task Manager is working fine now thanks to a fix from a board. The message I was getting from CTL-ALT-DEL was "Task Manager has been disabled by the system administrator."

The second problem (I have to think they are related) is that I lost control of my system tray. I have no icons in the system tray and no expand arrow. The clock is still there. When I go to Taskbar properties the Hide Inactive box has been "Grayed Out."

Any ideas?

~r

 

[kimsland]

Repair TaskBar missing
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/restoretaskbar.reg (note: Right click, save as - then merge it to registry, by right click -> merge)

Run through this too: UPDATED 8-step Viruses/Spyware/Malware Preliminary Removal Instructions

But if you need to submit your logs, make a New Thread here: Virus & Malware removal forum