Task Manager Password???
Clicking on Start Task Manager starting requiring a password recently for no apparent reason. I’m now unable to access Task Manager. This is on Windows 7 Professional with all current updates and a si...
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HappyKayakers wrote:CA Traveler wrote:
No password required in Safe Mode so does this suggest that some driver, etc is responsible and is there any way to narrow down the problem?
This suggests that some program running at startup is hijacking some of your processes. Go back to safe mode and run msconfig....
While you're in Safe Mode, run the free version of Malwarebytes. This does looks suspicious, as you didn't change permissions? Blocking access to Task Manager would be something malware might do to prevent you from killing its process. Though admittedly, a faulty system update could also conceivably cause this issue.
