windows task manager?

Question

I joined virgin last month cuz they promised me a faster speed, i only get fast speeds in morning and it slows down as the day goes on. Anyway 2 cut a long story short, i was chatting with virgin via there chat line, bit like msn, and told them the problems. They then told me to download activex so they could take over my computer and do some tests on the bt speedtest page. I could never do this cuz it kept coming up error. Virgin tried it also and they couldn't do it. Well, the person using my computer went into various things, and the last one being task manager, i don't know what he did exactly but he cocked my computer up, i couldn't type back to him cuz it came in different txt which you couldn't read, and he left me in the lurch, i had to switch my comp off and do a restore to get it back to normal.
Could someone tell me what they think he might did, and where is task manager cuz i can not find it, although it seems to be working ok now. wheres task manager and what is it?

Answer 1

if u press ctrl+alt+del task manager will open it's mainly a monitoring unit , shows you the open programs, processes, the % of the cpu used, and % of the network ... he might have clossed some processes permanently (closed and then deactivated their autoopen when windows boots) but overall there's not much damage you can do with task manager alone, it's great if a program gets stuck so instead of restarting your pc you can just end the program's process

Answer 2

It's too bad the support "engineer" you spoke to didn't know how to recover your situation. I understand what he tried to do, but there is another way he could have described to you enabling remote desktop connections and remote assistance that doesn't require the ActiveX plugin his system required.



In any case, it sounds like your system was very sick by then, so maybe or maybe not it would have made a diff.



It's likely when you were typing strange characters that you had some keyboard alternative key pressed. The idea of these special keys is that when pressed, it activates a "second set" of letters, numbers or symbols on the keyboard instead of what you'd normally expect. To undo that situation, you have to know what special alternative keyboard key you pressed, usually pressing that key again will return you to the normal keyboard



That's hard to fix remotely because every manufacturer's keyboard might have a different special key to do this... On my personal laptop I have not only the standard CTL and ALT keys, I also have the generally seen Windows key, a Fn key and another key I have no idea what it does (I hope I never have to find out or maybe I should find out now before it causes a problem?!)



The task manager is a special app which will list all programs running, all lower level processes running on your machine, some information about general performance plus more.



The Task Manager app can be invoked at least a couple ways...



While logged in with an Admin account, you can press CTL-ALT-DEL keys all at once, and one of the buttons you'll see on the window that pops up will be the Task Manager.



Another way is

Start Button > Run...

Type in

taskmgr



Good Luck...

Answer 3

The explanation of Task Manager might help. Task manager is what comes up when you type CTRL-ALT-DEL. It has several areas and several options for seeing what processes are running on your computer, what applications (programs) are running at the time you load it, performance such as what your processer and memory are doing activity wise, network information, what users are logged on to your system, shut down options, and many more.



He was probably checking to see if there were any programs that might affect your internet connection or if they have software they gave you to use their service, if anything was conflicting with it or if it was even running.



My advice would be to look at task manager but to not do anything that you aren´t really sure of. You could easily crash your system if you start tinkering.

Answer 4

Task Manager allows you to view your computers current state - all the programs running (including background 'tasks'), how much memory is being used, and the bandwith of any connections you are on.

You can access it via pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete on your Keyboard, ir simpler, right click your taskbar and choose Task Manager. Its handy to minimize it to your System Tray so you know whether your computer has crashed or not by looking at the CPU activity.

Answer 5

That guy could've done a number of things, but it sounds like he messed up your script coding, or your fonts. But, the task manager is when you press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up the task manager, where one can end or run new tasks and processes, etc., from the task manager. If you press those three buttons simultaneously, you will get the windows task manager window.

Answer 6

hit ctrl and alt hold them down and hit del that will bring it up. That was also illegal for them to do that unless you approved them to do so. But the reason it got slower as the day went on is b/c more people started using it and they have a certain limit on their bandwith once theres very little left b/c of so many on it starts slowing down the internet :(

Answer 7

Press. Ctrl Alt And Delete

Answer 8

task manager: manages tasks obviously. It tells the status of the current windows you have open. And will shut down and unresponsive windows to avoid more freezing.



to reach task manager press the keys:

CTRL+ALT+DELETE

all at the same time.

Answer 9

Task manager is control>alt>delete. I'd phone virgin though and give them hell! He shouldn't of screwed it up and just left you hanging x

Answer 10

hit CTRL+ALT+DEL that will bring up task manager. It's just a program that lets you see what all is going on with your computer...

Answer 11

well for me you get windows task manager up by holding

ctrl+shift+esc together and it gets task manager up(dunno what he did though

Answer 12

Try CTRL-ALT-DEL.