Admin System Tools Won't Run

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For some reason, when I try to run the admin tools (e.g. defrag, computer
mgr, etc) I'll sometimes get a pop-up of the tool screen and then it goes
away. At first I thought the tool was running in the background, but it
seemed to close w/out running. I'm sure I've got some kind of Win XP Home
SP2 configuration issue, but can't figure it out.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

I'm unable to run taskmgr and will try the virus scan using Norton AV ver
11.0.9.16. My most recent scan was only 3 days ago, and it only found adware
files. I then ran Spybot S&D and cleaned up some spyware files. I don't
have any adware apps.

"Michael Katz [MVP]" wrote:

> Are you able to open task manager? Try doing so by either pressing
> Ctrl+Alt+Del or clicking Start --> Run --> type in "taskmgr" (without
> quotations) and pressing enter.
>
> Some viruses have been known to disable access to typical Windows admin
> tools. Try scanning your system with a virus checker, or if you don't have
> one or it's not working, check out Symantec Security Check at
> http://security.symantec.com/sscv6 [...] &venid=sym
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> "Seemore" <Seemore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C276427D-B792-449B-B318-2214EBC5B539@microsoft.com...
> > For some reason, when I try to run the admin tools (e.g. defrag, computer
> > mgr, etc) I'll sometimes get a pop-up of the tool screen and then it goes
> > away. At first I thought the tool was running in the background, but it
> > seemed to close w/out running. I'm sure I've got some kind of Win XP Home
> > SP2 configuration issue, but can't figure it out.
>
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