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How to setup a shortcut to taskmanager

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by jamest62

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We are implementing something called VNC viewer which allows us to take over a PC on our company network on users PC's . With a users permission we can take over their PC to troubleshoot various problems.

Here is the question: How do we setup a shortcut on Win9x PC's to the task manager? If we want to go to the task manager on the PC that we are viewing remotely, an ALt;CTL;DEL will not work. It simply brings up the task manager from the PC we are working from. What we need is a shortcut on the remote PC that we can double click remotely to bring up the task manager.

Thanks for your help,

Jim Turner
CSA
Sedgwick County Wichita Kansas

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by fgarber

In VNC if you click on the icon in the upper left corner one of the options is to send ctrl alt del. It works just the way you want.

by jamest62

Your suggestion works only with NT and Win2000. Need this for Win95 and Win98 OS's. Thanks for the information though.

by syberdeath

PCanywhere by Symantec is basically the same type of program you speak of. In version 10 of PCanywhere I think will let you send the CTRL+ALT+DEL to the host PC and I think you can use it to connect via IP address. We use it with modems to dial in to our clients PC's. In earlier versions of PCanywhere we had the same problem you did with not being able to shut down some programs that could only be shut down in task manager. Try PCanywhere and see if that helps you out.

by buffalodan

Rt Click an open spot on that machines desktop, select new, select shortcut.
type "taskman" and press enter, call it whatever you wish to call it, and the finish.

you can verify if this will work for you on the remote machines by assuming control of the remote machine thru VNC, then click on the start button, choose run, and type "Taskman" and press enter.
The app has a different look than it would by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del, but still retains the functionality.
Good Luck and have fun....

by jamest62

This will allow us to stop applications but not services. The many services that run in the background are not displayed here and thus we cannot stop them.

Thanks,

Jim Turner

by jonmullen

It won't be the exact same as the Close program window, but most of the services you are talking about closing can be stoped from runing in the first place by un checking them in the System Config start up. You can acces this by Start => Programs =>Accessories => System Tools => System Info. In system info you will need to go to the start up tab and uncheck the unwanted programs. After doing so a quick restart should do the trick.

Hope this helps
Jonathan

by shanghai sam

We will be using VNC to remotely administer and configure PC's and we need the ability to take down apps while the PC is running. This, thus, will not suffice.

by avanturis

another possibility is Timbuktu i also has the feature to send a CTrl-Alt-Del by right clicking on the top panel.

by avanturis

another thought is to write a small macro and place it on your computer then when you connect you just copy from 1 desktop to another and perform action then either delete or have it auto delelte after completion of macro.

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