I ran across an error when launching task manager in Windows 7 which was “c:\windows\system32\taskmgr.exe The parameter is incorrect”. You can see a screen shot of the error below . When I first received this error I was stumped as I had never had an issue with task manager in my life. I then started thinking back to what I had done in the past few days and remembered what I had done. I had enabled process explorer from sysinternals to replace task manager. This is no big deal, but if you move the process explorer executable to a different location it is a problem. I had been doing some house cleaning and moved the exe to another location. To fix the problem all I had to do is launch process explorer again and under options select restore task manager. When I had completed this process task manager started up without a problem. Hopefully this post comes in handy to somebody else running into the same problem.
Error Displayed When Launching Task Manager
Windows 7 adds a great new security feature called UAC. There are certain situations where you have to disable UAC which you can do by following the below steps.
1. Open control panel by going to the start menu -> Control Panel
2. From the control panel select User Accounts And Family Safety
3. Select User Accounts
4. Select Change User Account Control Settings
5. Move slider bar to the bottom so it is at never notify. Then click OK.
Over at coldeplex there is another great project that I wanted to let you know about. The project is called image resizer and is clone of the old Image Resizer XP Powertoy. The tool was created by Brice Lambson to support new operating systems and also 64 bit operating systems. The tool lets you quickly resize your pictures by just right clicking the picture and select resize picture. You then have the option of creating a small, medium, large, or mobile device size. This tool is one of the must haves when I install a new operating system.
Image Resizer Codeplex Project Page
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/
Image Resizer Screenshots
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Screenshots&referringTitle=Home
