Taskmonitor question

[98 Guy]

taskmon.exe

Find taskmon.exe and taskman.exe and re-name them to

- taskmon.ex_ (29 kb)
- taskman.ex_ (48 kb)

If win-98 won't let you rename them, boot into DOS and do it that way.

They should be located in your c:\windows directory.

Does anyone know why there is a taskMAN and a taskMON ?

I've checked a few of my win-98 machines and I seem to have done that
(rename them) on those machines at some point in the past. There must
have been a reason for doing that...

I've searched the registry on a few of these machines, looking for
"taskmon" and "taskman".

Search your registry for "taskmon.exe" and "taskman.exe" and nuke any /
all of them. I don't think you'll break anything by doing that. I
can't find any instances of those in my registry(s) so I must have also
done that at some point in the past.

Perhaps taskmon/taskman are pesky things that don't behave according to
"official" settings, and you have to take out the big guns and nuke them
if you don't want them to be running...

[Henry]

Post by 98 Guy

taskmon.exe

Find taskmon.exe and taskman.exe and re-name them to
- taskmon.ex_ (29 kb)
- taskman.ex_ (48 kb)
If win-98 won't let you rename them, boot into DOS and do it that way.
They should be located in your c:\windows directory.
Does anyone know why there is a taskMAN and a taskMON ?
I've checked a few of my win-98 machines and I seem to have done that
(rename them) on those machines at some point in the past. There must
have been a reason for doing that...
I've searched the registry on a few of these machines, looking for
"taskmon" and "taskman".
Search your registry for "taskmon.exe" and "taskman.exe" and nuke any /
all of them. I don't think you'll break anything by doing that. I
can't find any instances of those in my registry(s) so I must have also
done that at some point in the past.
Perhaps taskmon/taskman are pesky things that don't behave according to
"official" settings, and you have to take out the big guns and nuke them
if you don't want them to be running...

Renamed them in Windows folder and rebooted. Taskmonitor still started and
is in the Sys Tray.

I didn't hack the registry.

Henry

[98 Guy]

Post by Henry

Post by 98 Guy
Find taskmon.exe and taskman.exe and re-name them to
- taskmon.ex_ (29 kb)
- taskman.ex_ (48 kb)

Renamed them in Windows folder and rebooted. Taskmonitor still
started and is in the Sys Tray.
I didn't hack the registry.

Do a file-find from Windows (Start, Find, Files or Folders) and search
your C drive (or possibly all accessible drives) for -> taskm*.*

That should find all occurances of taskmon.exe and taskman.exe
(including the ones you renamed).

See if windows restored them from some other location.

If Windows brought them back, then they should have re-appeared in your
windows directory.

[98 Guy]

Post by Henry
I didn't hack the registry.

Run regedit and search for filemon.exe and fileman.exe and just post
where (under what key location) they exist.