Solved Task Manager crashes when I attempt to see item properties

I tried to look at the properties of a Firefox plugin-container entry in Task Manager and it crashed. Then Windows become completely unresponsive. I had to hard reboot the computer. Now, if I attempt to look at the properties of any process in Task Manager it crashes with the following Problem Signature:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: taskmgr.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918e94
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.19034
Fault Module Timestamp: 52f2ec86
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00047877
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160


Is this bad? Can it be fixed? Nothing else appears to be affected, unless this is what's causing my headaches with Kaspersky closing on its own. I'm already working with Kaspersky support. Please let's not get sidetracked.

It resolved itself.

Did you do anything to fix it? If so please share. I was concerned that according to the error message the version for task manager is for service pack 1 yet you are running service pack 2. So I checked my Vista virtual machine and it has exactly the same version for task manager. I suppose Microsoft didn't update the application for service pack 2.

I was having compounding failures so I rebooted and everything came up roses. That's all I did. That's not to say I don't still have other problems on my computer, but this problem resolved.