So heres the deal...

I like to turn off background programs from time to time in my task manager. Ya know, to make things run a bit smoother/faster. Now The issuse isn't what I turn off but why I can't get my task manager to open anymore. I do the whole control alt and delete thing and my task manager don't come up.

More details:
Just got back online via free months with AOL. Old vision 8.0
Started downloading stuff with limewire (always a bad idea when you don't have protection for your comp)
Messed around with downloaded programs from limewire (Never a good idea)

And now when I turn on my computer it wants to open either limewire or AOL or both as soon as windows starts and ctrl, alt, delete don't work!

I have AOL geting me some (I'm sure shity virus blah blah blah programs) now. Reinstalled limewire. Tryed to refresh back to last known good config. Nothing is working so far but as I said AOL is downloading some virus crap for me now.

In the meantime is there anything I can do to reactivate my task manager, or is there a way I can go to the start menu and go through run to get task manager back???

Any help will be super sweet!

Thanks peeps.