Task manager will not open

Hi, I am new and have a very annoying problem.

When I try to open task manager a black box comes up like the cmd, but in a split second it's gone, it said something but it goes away too quick to read so i downloaded a screen video capture program and recorded it, it said "program too big to fit in memory".

I have tried just about every method of opening it, ctrl + shift + delete will not open it, same with right clicking the taskbar, along with every other way I have tried including searching from the start menu for the exe and running it.

I have googled and googled, with no success, the only information i found was a link to a thread on this site - http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=216785

He is the only other person i could find who has the same problem as i do, I have scanned for viruses countless times, nothing.

please help ! - I am running windows 7 Ultimate

Thanks

 

What if you search your computer for taskmgr.exe, then double click on one of the results? I can make my TM open like that and I have 7 x64.

You may first have to show hidden and systems files.

 

Hi, thanks for the replys, still nothing though, found the exe, same thing.

 

Sounds like you may have lost the proper associations for *.exe files.

Try the directions on this link:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/file-asso-fixes-for-windows-7/

 

Are you using 32bit or 64bit WIN7?

I'm attaching a copy of mine (32bit) so you can test if yours has been corrupted.

 

@brandypeppy

I tried your link, but the problem persisted

@sach2

32 bit, i opened your exe and it worked flawlessly !

Thank you all for your quick replys and solutions

 

I was hoping it would work. It seemed strange in the other thread that only one .exe was not working. I guess it got corrupted somehow. [The other thread definitely sounded like his forcing shutdown could have caused the corruption]

I guess you should copy that file into your System32 folder so it works system wide. [You can rename your old taskmgr.exe something like taskmanager_old.exe if you don't want to delete it.]

 

yeah, i tried that and now its saying i need permission from "trustedinstaller", did some research and its supposed to be difficult and risky, ohwell im not too fussed. at least i have task manager now

 

Thanks sepultura for posting about TrustedInstaller. I hadn't run into that before. I'll have to read up on it.

This first thread didn't make it seem too hard to get privileges on a file to delete or rename it. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-system-file-in-windows-vista/ But it doesn't state whether or not trying to put a file with a known system-file name into system32 would be difficult.

I'm going to look at it with a less important file and read a few more links to see what the steps would need to be.

Note: I'm just thanking you for letting me know there is a problem replacing a System32 file not saying you should try to move taskmgr over to system32. I'll have to read some more and do some testing before ever recommending it.

Thanks again,