labber, XP home does not have gpedit. Go to my post in the first page and apply it.
Or, if you wish, just do this and it will remove the key value involved.
==Please copy the text in the box to a notepad [format/wordwrap unchecked] and save as fixkey.reg, as type "all files", to your desktop; dclick it to run... agree; if it opens in notepad instead rclick the icon [file], choose Open with, Registry editor....Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "DisableTaskMgr"=-
thanks ! i open regedit and followed your trail to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]"DisableTaskMgr" and just deleted it !!
seems to work fine !! thanks again