Hiya all.

Don't know what's happened but all of a sudden nothing happens when I press Ctrl+alt+del.

Can anyone tell me why this has happened or failing that how else I can get to task manager?

I've used the windows search to look for task manager but to no avail. Oh I'm using windows XP pro with service pack 2 (and all the latest upgrades).

Don't know why it's gone but you can find it by right-clicking on the taskbar and you'll find it there.

There is an official way to disable/enable it using a registery tweak --- but I can't see how it can happen by accident --- this makes me suspect virus or other malware

istr MS Tweek Ui power toy will let you turn it on or off but I am not 100% sure.

CTRL SHIFT ESC will also bring it up.

I'd be very suspicious though and run all of the checkers below.

It may be disabled in the registry:
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftCurrentVersionPoliciesSystemDisableTaskMgr

Or it could be as a group policy
Start/run gpedit.msc, its in there somewhere

But also please have a full scan.

http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/free_spyware_scan.asp

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pestscan.aspx

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx