I've been scouring multiple forum posts all across the web trying to fix this problem for the past week or so, and nothing seems to help or be quite the same to my problem. Hoping you guys can help me out here.
So, as the title says, I am no longer able to open my Task Manager. At all. There's no error message, no reaction to any method of opening it.
I've tried right clicking the task bar, and unlike some other people's problems it is not grayed out. It looks normal, but does nothing.
I've tried CTRL ALT DLT, in which the option is also still there, but does nothing.
I've tried CTRL SHIFT ESC, where holding that down would make the little loading circle near my mouse flicker. So I can tell it's Trying to do something but isn't.
I've tried running it through Run, which also did nothing.
And I've tried double clicking taskmgr.exe itself, which still did nothing.
I've also noticed that many of my games are no longer capable of running. I can provide a list of the ones I've found and what happens if it'll help.
My anti-virus is enabled and I've done a full scan to no avail.
Also whenever I restart my computer, I get an error message stating that SiSpkt.dll was not designed to run on this version of windows or contains an error.
After searching for 2 hours, I literally found no information on this file whatsoever. It was increasingly annoying finding nothing but dozens of identical programs saying they'll fix it for free, when really they just scan for problems and make you pay to fix them. I have no real idea what this .dll does, but they're located in the ASUS folders. I've tried replacing them but it didn't do anything.
I don't know if all of this is related or not, but I'm at my wit's end here. Oh, and Regedit does still run. I saw that was another problem that accompanied many people who couldn't run Task Manager, but I can still run mine.
Anyways, thanks in advance for any assistance that can be provided, I really have no clue what to do next.
So, as the title says, I am no longer able to open my Task Manager. At all. There's no error message, no reaction to any method of opening it.
I've tried right clicking the task bar, and unlike some other people's problems it is not grayed out. It looks normal, but does nothing.
I've tried CTRL ALT DLT, in which the option is also still there, but does nothing.
I've tried CTRL SHIFT ESC, where holding that down would make the little loading circle near my mouse flicker. So I can tell it's Trying to do something but isn't.
I've tried running it through Run, which also did nothing.
And I've tried double clicking taskmgr.exe itself, which still did nothing.
I've also noticed that many of my games are no longer capable of running. I can provide a list of the ones I've found and what happens if it'll help.
My anti-virus is enabled and I've done a full scan to no avail.
Also whenever I restart my computer, I get an error message stating that SiSpkt.dll was not designed to run on this version of windows or contains an error.
After searching for 2 hours, I literally found no information on this file whatsoever. It was increasingly annoying finding nothing but dozens of identical programs saying they'll fix it for free, when really they just scan for problems and make you pay to fix them. I have no real idea what this .dll does, but they're located in the ASUS folders. I've tried replacing them but it didn't do anything.
I don't know if all of this is related or not, but I'm at my wit's end here. Oh, and Regedit does still run. I saw that was another problem that accompanied many people who couldn't run Task Manager, but I can still run mine.
Anyways, thanks in advance for any assistance that can be provided, I really have no clue what to do next.