My favourite is Alt-SysRq- on a Linux box.
I'm no OS expert, but I think there's some special voodoo (maybe even hardware) that ensures "something" always gets through when the keyboard doesn't work. Designing the CtrlAltDel function made sense 25 odd years ago, but if designing from scratch, it would never be done today.Ĭtrl-Alt-Delete survives because it's a useful feature of keyboards. Yes I was looking for a more considered, philosophical answer about the nature, and evolution of how we do things, and how we take outmoded ways of doing things for granted. I just think that it is an anachronism that could and should have been declared inefficient, and made obsolete by XP.
#Who invented ctrl alt delete Pc
Yes I do comprendez (are you Tim from Big Brother?), but I would have thought that the keystroke operation which restarted your PC in windows operating systems up to Win95, would have been left behind, rather than retained and used for a different purpose (logon and Task Manager).įor the posters above, pressing Ctrl Alt Del whilst in XP does not restart your PC. If it were a program (running on someone else's desktop) then as soon as you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del you'd get the task manager, and know something was wrong.
When you press the keys at the logon screen, you know by the fact that the logon message disappears and the logon form appears that you are 'looking' at Windows, and not a malicious program designed to capture your password. For logon purposes, Ctrl+Alt+Del is used for security, as this specific key combination is reserved by Windows.
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