Task Manager went dead

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:11 pm

I'm suddenly having a weird problem...bringing up Task Manager in Windows XP SP2 (either by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by loading it via the TaskBar) locks up my computer most of the time. I can only load it successfully about 3 out of 10 times. All other times it locks up Windows -- I can move the mouse cursor, some programs may still work, but anything associated with Windows itself locks up. I pretty much have to reset manually. It wasn't doing this at all up until yesterday. Nothing has changed in my configuration.

So far, it hasn't affected my music-making abilities...it's only TaskManager that's having a problem. I'm nervous, though, that other things may start falling apart in the future.

I just reinstalled Windows recently, and I don't feel like doing it again.

Anybody know about this?

Thanks,

Shayne

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:58 pm

try starting windows in diagnostic mode using msconfig and if in that way the task manager works fine, then try to start windows in selective mode, enabling one process at a time until the problem will apear again.

arela · Post by **arela** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:40 am

Windows rules

I was going to update an old laptop with xp sp1 and sp2.
This PC is my "holliday pc", mostly used to refresh my ipod and to keep up with email and news. I took me most of one day, with 35 criticial updates before done

End of the story; my 10Gb is almost up to the rim. Shorter holliday this year?

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:48 pm

On 2006-01-17 14:58, djmicron wrote:
try starting windows in diagnostic mode using msconfig and if in that way the task manager works fine, then try to start windows in selective mode, enabling one process at a time until the problem will apear again.

Yes! That seemed to work. No crashes in diagnostic mode. Of course, hardly anything is running in diagnostic mode. The good news is that it definitely is NOT Scope that's causing the problem -- I can stop the software from loading and disable the device drivers in Device Manager, and it still crashes in normal mode. So -- I'm going to have to enable services and drivers one by one and see what causes Task Manager to crash. This isn't going to easy.

Thanks for your help,

Shayne

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Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:15 pm

It's Msg32.dll!!!! I enabled it, and it started crashing. Went back to normal Windows mode (so everything would run), disabled msg32, and it hasn't crashed. This makes sense -- one time when Task Manager did crash, when I rebooted it came up and said "System has crashed. Would you like to diasble drivers associated with GigaStudio technology?" I didn't realize that was the problem at the time.

Now -- I wonder how many other problems msg32 has been causing? My dual-core crashing and performance problems, for instance? I'll keep testing.

Very interesting indeed!

Shayne