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Author Topic: Can someone please help me fix my fubar'd taskmanager? :(  (Read 775 times)

Moogie

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Can someone please help me fix my fubar'd taskmanager? :(
« on: July 01, 2012, 03:02:21 pm »
God dommot, I just realised I posted this in Other Games. Totally meant to post it in Life Advice, but clicking Other has become such a habit for me lately... Uhhh, in lieu of being able to move it myself, I guess I'll just lock it. :P

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Earlier today I had a really bizarre system crash involving cascading error popups that would not close and kept multiplying. When I attempted to use the taskmanager to close the popups, one of them apparently did what you see in the screenshot- it neutered my taskmanager, such that there's no menu, no tabs... just a resizable box that I can drag around the screen.

Pretty sure I'm not virused, I've done a sweep with Malwarebytes and I have MSE always active, but I'll do some additional scans just to be safe. In the meantime, not even a reboot has helped.

I'm not sure what to Google... if anyone recognises this, or knows of a way to 'reset' the window, I'd be extremely grateful!
« Last Edit: July 01, 2012, 03:36:42 pm by Moogie »
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Re: Can someone please help me fix my fubar'd taskmanager? :(
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 03:05:46 pm »
Try double-clicking the border. I think that it's showing a simplified version that can be toggled by double-clicking in the window.
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Moogie

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Re: Can someone please help me fix my fubar'd taskmanager? :(
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 03:09:44 pm »
Oh thank science, that worked. Thank you very much! :)

I'm curious, though... how would you even access this 'simple' mode? It happened to me by accident, but judging by how easy it was (relatively) to escape it, I would have assumed a similar action could put it back that way too.
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Re: Can someone please help me fix my fubar'd taskmanager? :(
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 03:12:55 pm »
No problem! I'm pretty sure it's activated by double-clicking it, which is easy to do on accident.
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Re: Can someone please help me fix my fubar'd taskmanager? :(
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 03:34:19 pm »
Ahh. I tried that, but I was clicking the outer areas. Yup, a doubleclick inside the border of the 'inner' window area does indeed toggle it.
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