missing task manager

ctrl-shift-esc does absolutely nothing, but thanks for the quick suggestion

Does it work if you right click on taskbar, start task manager?

i had this problem when i ticked 'replace task manager' in process explorer. turns out i had to:

"The net effect was to render Task Manager unavailable through Windows, reporting that the file is not present (which it is.) I initially thought taskmgr.exe had been corrupted but found a thread that led me to the fix listed below.

As usual, do not mess with the registry before making a backup of it and even then do so at your own peril. Edit the registry using regedit in RUN.

Find the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe

delete the key labeled Debugger or modify the value data of the key to "c:\xx\xx\procexp.exe" where xx are replaced by the path to the location of the procexp.exe file. Process Explorer will then run from a Ctrl+Alt+Del as ususal or when task manager is invoked via the GUI."

hey dont know if you guys still come around......i am having this problem and i navigate to that registry point and when i highlight taskmanager.exe it is empty on the right hand side....does anyone know what should be there?