Yeah, I know I'm the admin here, but hey, I get computer problems too. This is one I've never seen before. If I right-click on my taskbar and select TaskManager, it takes an inordinately long amount of time to open, and depending on how many other programs I have open, it functions as though my machine were dead out of memory. Usually, when this happens I just have to shut it down because it's unusable.

However, if I open it via control alt delete, it opens in a nanosecond and functions absolutely normally. What is being bypassed using this latter method of opening TaskManager?