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Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator

Ken — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:27:28 +0000

Wondering how can you access the Task Manager when you’re facing this message: Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator? There are 2 ways to do this.

First method (the easy one):

Click Start, Run and copy/paste this command:

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Click OK.

If you still cannot access the Task Manager try the second method:

1. Click Start, Run and write: regedit
2. Go to the following:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System

3. In the right-panel, right click on DisableTaskMgr, click on Modify and change the Value to 0
4. OK
4. Close the window

Now try CTRL+ALT+DEL. It should open the Task Manager without any message :)

How to Hide System Tray Icons Using Regedit Command

Ken — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:27:23 +0000

This tutorial is about how to hide all system tray icons using registry. It’s working perfect in XP and Windows Vista. In the next blog post I’ll show you how to hide only specific icons.

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter

2. Go to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. Create a DWORD value by right clicking the right pane and click new, then DWORD value

4. Name the key as NoTrayItemsDisplay

5. Double click the key after creation and set the value as 1

6. Close registry and restart your computer in order for the settings to take into effect.

How to disable “just-in time debugging”

Ken — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:05:25 +0000

Just-In-Time debugging (that annoying pop-up message) is a windows feature that is starting automatically Visual Studio debugger when a software it’s giving a fatal error. There is no need for The Visual Studio debugger to run when some sort of error occurs.

How can you disable this windows feature?
Today I got the perfect solution:
-to stop this message from popping up, go to Control Panel > Internet Options > Advanced, then put a check in the following two boxes:
- Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)
- Disable Script Debugging (Others)
This is really working ;)

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Change the Temporary Internet Files location

Ken — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:31:19 +0000

To relocate the Temporary Internet Files using the registry editor could be a painfully method but in the same time kinda professional one, so you better prefer this one instead using third party windows utilities. Another good thing is that the registry editing is giving you more control than other methods. Let’s get started.

1. Create the destination folder for the Temporary Internet Files.
2. Hit START, Run and write down REGEDIT. Press ENTER.
3. Go to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders

In the right-panel, double-click the value named Cache and set it’s value to the new Temporary Internet Files folder (assuming the new directory is located on D:\Temporary Internet Files)

4. Make the changes in the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Shell Folders

5. Close Registry Editor and log off. Log in back for the changes to take effect. The Temporary Internet Files will be stored in the new location which you defined.

6. Delete Temporary Internet Files. The old Temporary Internet Files can be deleted manually by navigating to this folder C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR COMPUTER NAME HERE\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files.