Windows 10 Bug: Task Manager not showing processes

Here is yet another picture of the WELL known WINDOWS 10 TASK MANAGER BUG - showing no processes:

Same here.. as a work-around you can open task manager at the start of the session and keep it opened by minimizing to icon... the bug won't appear until the task manager is kept open....

Just to know: someone gets this problem in pair with following one? When I shut down the computer, appears a message alert saying that "If you shut down the system now, you and other people using the PC may lose unsaved work.":

Annoying thing is that *user list on task manager is empty* too, letting me think about a malware, root kit or something similar (I use windows defender anyway and various virus scanners did not report anything).

So tried to know users logged on via cmd:

Microsoft Windows [Versione 10.0.16299.192]

(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. Tutti i diritti sono riservati.

C:\Users\xxx>query user

Errore 0x00000005 durante l'enumerazione dei nomi di sessione

Errore [5]:Accesso negato.

Access denied.. very strange and it increased my fear to have the machine compromised...

Anyway I checked using psloggedon from sysinternals and it seems all right:

D:\_DL\PSTools>PsLoggedon.exe

PsLoggedon v1.35 - See who's logged on

Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Mark Russinovich

Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Users logged on locally:

     06/03/2018 09:04:12        yyy\xxx

No one is logged on via resource shares.

All above lets me think of a bug in "Fall creators update", this problem arised since I updated my machine to this version:

It would be glad if someone could address the issues above (without saying about formatting or clean installations..).

Thanks in advance.

I had this exact same issue (no processes showing in task manager, no users showing, the same statement if I try to restart, and the same output for "query user." I had the same reaction too; I though I might be compromised. It would be nice to get a response from Microsoft acknowledging this is their software or a conflict, and not malware...

Same here.. as a work-around you can open task manager at the start of the session and keep it opened by minimizing to icon... the bug won't appear until the task manager is kept open....

Just to know: someone gets this problem in pair with following one? When I shut down the computer, appears a message alert saying that "If you shut down the system now, you and other people using the PC may lose unsaved work.":

Annoying thing is that *user list on task manager is empty* too, letting me think about a malware, root kit or something similar (I use windows defender anyway and various virus scanners did not report anything).

So tried to know users logged on via cmd:

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Microsoft Windows [Versione 10.0.16299.192]

(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. Tutti i diritti sono riservati.

C:\Users\xxx>query user

Errore 0x00000005 durante l'enumerazione dei nomi di sessione

Errore [5]:Accesso negato.

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Access denied.. very strange and it increased my fear to have the machine compromised...

Anyway I checked using psloggedon from sysinternals and it seems all right:

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D:\_DL\PSTools>PsLoggedon.exe

PsLoggedon v1.35 - See who's logged on

Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Mark Russinovich

Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Users logged on locally:

     06/03/2018 09:04:12        yyy\xxx

No one is logged on via resource shares.

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All above lets me think of a bug in "Fall creators update", this problem arised since I updated my machine to this version:

It would be glad if someone could address the issues above (without saying about formatting or clean installations..).

Thanks in advance.

Same problem showing empty in the process tab of task manager and same problem (warning message) when turning the computer down!

Several years ago I asked a colleague who had connection with MS to send a list of problems that I encountered in using the Windows OS. I have not seen any change and improvement since then. For an example, in the file explorer, you have to click the folder area (left side) or the file area (right side), not just move the cursor to the particular area, before you are able to scroll the right list. Not very smart, not very considerate!

I have recently come across a similar problem

The task manager is frozen when you open it

No active monitoring but can select processes and end them

It is permanently stuck like the picture below - I have shut down and restarted many times

I can't believe no one else has come across this problem recently and Microsoft does not have a solution