taskmanager frozen when started

had malware get onto my comp.removed it all with help from this site.i only noticed something was wrong because my taskmanager would be frozen when i opened it.now the malware is gone,comp is clean but the taskmanager is still in the same state.i can close programs through it but they remain in the list because it's not updating at all.if im looking at the performance view and i double click a bunch of times to expand and shrink it back it does register the changes it should be doing continuously.anyone know of a way to fix this problem? anyways to re-install the taskmanager or something?

 

almost

i found this earlier today actually unfortunately when i bought my computer i was not given an xp disc.now if i dl a copy of xp am i at any time going to need to enter a cd key when doing this?

 

still no change

no one i know has xp on disc so i tried with a dl'd version of windows,but no fix even though it was reinstalled.any way to uninstall it first or is it possible to delete it completely with no ill effects and then reinstall?

 

Hello All,

Edited;
To my embarrassment, I got lost. Please forgive me. I meant to post in Fieldr's post who is also having an msconfig issue {but symptoms are different}. I have since edited and cut my comments out of here. Sorry.